Jack Challem
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 Argumentativeness, meanness, and unwillingness to compromise now pervade politics—but they're not restricted to politics. Who among us commutes and does not regularly encounter some form of meanness or recklessness on the part of other drivers—or is not guilty of it himself?
As an example, in the late 1980s, I moved to Beaverton, Oregon, and was immediately struck by the courtesy of drivers. This changed during a boom in the local high-tech economy, when thousands of people relocated from California and brought with them their notorious driving habits. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The politics of cancer: Keep 'em sick!
As usual, America's abandonment of the world's best natural anti-cancer medicine has nothing at all to do with science, but everything to do with politics and profits. If vitamin D were a cancer drug made by Pfizer, the American Cancer Society would likely be pushing it as the next "miracle" drug and calling for everyone to be put on the drug. But since it's a nutrient that cannot be patented, and can actually be manufactured for free by exposing your skin to natural sunlight, the entire U.S. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 Of course, since fava beans were used as ballots at the time—white for yes and black for no—he may have just been giving his students advice that all good philosophers should still ponder today—"Avoid politics."
In fact, the legends surrounding Pythagoras's warning are almost as varied as the legends around the bean itself. A different theory holds that Pythagoras's concern was something much less grave than possible poison and much less theoretical than possible politics—according to Diogenes, Pythagoras was just worried his students would eat too many beans and, well, pass too much gas. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Inside the FDA: The Business and politics Behind the Drugs We Take and the Food We Eat by Fran Hawthorne. A terrific and well-researched book that also happens to be a page-turner!
Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs Are Altering American Lives, Minds and Bodies by Greg Critser. Michael Pollan—one of my favorite authors—says "What Fast Food Nation did for the way Americans eat, Generation Rx does for the way we medicate ourselves." Right on.
Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health by Marion Nestle, Ph.D. |
Stacy Malkan
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 The politics of Falling Behind
What's also needed is a fundamental shift in American politics. Case in point: your kitchen cabinets. Why — if Dr. Kaichang Li has already invented a non-toxic, cost-effective replacement for urea formaldehyde — do most new kitchen cabinets sold in the US let off formaldehyde gas? The majority of plywood cabinets sold in US stores come from China, but it's not that Chinese factories aren't already making formaldehyde-free cabinets and furniture. |
Mark Schapiro
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 The idea that environmental regulations in the United States are a response to the European Union means that we, as Americans, are getting policies that are a result not of politics or democratic input [in America], but the product of politics and the market in Europe."18
The Bush administration's abnegation of environmental leadership has ceded this terrain to more forward-looking forces in Brussels. Despite efforts by C. Boyden Gray and others speaking for U.S. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Politics
Get involved in local, regional, and national politics. Above all, vote the current slate of self-serving bastards out of office. Maybe a more-frequent churning of our political scene would preclude the strong bonds that now exist between government and industry.
Buy American
Buy American! And look behind the label. Currently, many goods, including some expensive drugs, are manufactured offshore, where salaries are lower and benefits are often nonexistent. If the corporate home office is stateside, however, goods are brought back into the United States as "Made in America. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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 He has published some 270 peer reviewed scientific articles, and authored or co-authored twelve books: the 1971 Mutagenicity of Pesticides: the 1971 Drugs of Abuse: Genetic and Other Chronic Non-Psychiatric Hazards: the 1974 The Legislation of Product Safety: Consumer Health and Product Hazards: the prize-winning 1978 The politics of Cancer: the 1982 Hazardous Wastes in America: the 1983 Cancer in Britain: The politics of Prevention: the 1995 Safe Shopper's Bible: the 1998 Breast Cancer Prevention Program: the 1998 The politics of Cancer Revisited: the 2001 Got (Genetically Engineered) Milk! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Does this play heavily into the politics in the United States?
Shamai: It could. Personally, I believe that one thing -- and this is only my personal belief -- that plays heavily into the politics in the United States is the prison industry. The prison industry is, I think, one of the fastest growing industries in the United States. In Canada, we don't have urine drug testing, but you do in the States, of course. People who smoke marijuana like to stand behind the hemp shield and say, "No, I was just eating hemp products." Right? As an industry, we fight that, and we say, "No, you weren't. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 Some are as burned out by their work or as bogged down by politics and paperwork as some doctors in the nonacademic community. Just as you don't need to despair if you can't find a female doctor, you don't need to despair if you live far from a university medical center. Wonderful, curious doctors are out there, and chances are there is one nearby who can help you. Your task is to go into that first visit with open eyes. Remember to take along the list of questions under
"Qualities to Look for in a Specialist," page 81. |
Bill Sardi
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 Most cancer patients don't want to hear about all the politics and pros and cons surrounding cancer treatment today. They don't want to hear that cancer treatment is limited to "slash, burn or poison." After all, it is all they have to cling to.
Entering the cancer caresystem: caveat emptor
Once patients enter the cancer detection system, they may be starting on a trail that will lead to their early demise. The true story of Barry's ordeal is unfortunately typical of what happens to those afflicted with cancer. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Frank: Well, the primary reason it exists is because the politics of cancer are far more complicated than the science. Twenty-five years ago, actually about 30 years ago, G. Edward Griffin wrote a book called "World Without Cancer."
Mike: I'm familiar with that book.
Frank: Part one is the science of cancer and also talks about vitamin B17, and the second half of that book, which is vitally important, is about the politics of cancer. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 It appears that medicine and politics are sharing the same hospital bed!" I said, catching my breath. We were raking leaves, and it annoyed me that I tired much more quickly than she did.
"What's new about that," Fran replied, continuing the job at hand.
It would seem that this new category, "semi-urgent," is misleading. Clearly for them there is no danger of life or limb. It would seem prudent (but not politically expedient) to once again combine this group with "nonurgent."
There is yet another issue in the interpretation of the data. |
Anne Harrington
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 The politics of community; or what does hierarchy have to do with it?
But was that the end of the story? By the time Putnam was writing these words, something had happened to the original epidemiological argument linking better health to better community. Working away in London on his study of health differences among British civil servants, Michael Marmot was beginning to have some second thoughts. His results were showing that the lower a person's employment status within the civil service hierarchy, the greater the risk of death from diseases of all sorts. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health by Marion Nestle, Ph.D.
I don't agree with Nestle about everything, but she sure got it right in this terrific book. Dense, but important.
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The politics of hemp
Mike: Can you talk more about the hemp -- your experience with the politics of hemp?
Shamai: Well, it's really, really different in Canada and the States. I can tell you that for sure. In Canada it was illegal, and a number of people said that we should legalize hemp. Some people, such as Joe Strobel and Jeff Klein, who I know personally, applied for a research license to grow hemp. That was probably in 1996, I think. It was the first growing license. And Health Canada said, "What? Hemp?" But they granted the license and then they started looking at it. |
Anne Harrington
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| Having early on expressed support for Nazi medical euthanasia programs ("it would not be fair if the German physician thought that he need not make a responsible contribution to a politics of necessary extermination"),46 Weizsacker was, by the late 1930s, contributing a regular monthly column on psychosomatic matters to a journal of naturopathic medicine called Hippokrates. |
Stacy Malkan
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| But the chemicals have an important story to tell about the science and politics of chemicals. You may be surprised to learn you are already intimately familiar with phthalates: think of the potent aroma of a vinyl shower curtain or "new car smell." Produced in the amount of one billion tons per year worldwide, phthalates are used to soften vinyl plastic and hold scent and color in a variety of consumer products. More than two decades. |
Anne Harrington
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| Nevertheless, there was little awareness at the time of how it worked in detail or of the larger policy and politics behind it. The United States had broken off diplomatic relations with Communist China in 1949, and the Bamboo Curtain had largely excluded visitors from the United States since then. In the early 1970s, however, the Nixon administration began to explore the possibility of restoring diplomatic relations with China. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger took the lead in laying the groundwork for the first meeting between Nixon and Mao. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Add to this the politics of medicine, and the picture becomes even murkier.
Don't Take Me To an Herbalist
Now do not—please—get me wrong. I believe Western medicine is absolutely without parallel when it comes to emergency medicine. I have said many times—and will continue to say—that if, God forbid, I am in a car accident, do not take me to an herbalist. |
| According to author Peter Jaret, this "superherb" was very nearly lost to Cold War politics.
Protecting the Brain
Because it is an adaptogen, R. rosea may also protect against all sorts of stressors. A number of studies have shown that R. rosea increases physical work capacity and dramatically shortens the recovery time between periods of high-intensity exercise. Admittedly, some controversy exists over its power to increase physical stamina; more clinical trials are needed, but it's looking promising. And speaking of stressors, it's worth noting that in Middle Asia, R. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It's just a nice, clean line.
The politics of hemp
Mike: Can you talk more about the hemp -- your experience with the politics of hemp?
Shamai: Well, it's really, really different in Canada and the States. I can tell you that for sure. In Canada it was illegal, and a number of people said that we should legalize hemp. Some people, such as Joe Strobel and Jeff Klein, who I know personally, applied for a research license to grow hemp. That was probably in 1996, I think. It was the first growing license. And Health Canada said, "What? Hemp? |
Byron J. Richards
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 Politics and Food
The government food pyramid is always an interesting commentary on the politics of our time. The dairy industry has gained new lobbying power, relative to the grain industry. The dairy lobby did quite well in this round of the pyramid power struggle.
We are now supposed to have three glasses of low-fat milk a day. I have nothing against quality milk, but it's not for everyone. People with digestive problems can't process milk well; it simply makes their digestive problems worse. Many Americans don't have the family heritage that supports this much milk consumption. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 What to Eat and Food politics, insists that "the statement you make with your pocketbook can be quite powerful. Any time you choose a food, you're voting with your fork."
So henceforth vote in a healthy way. Help us make the world a healthier place. That means don't buy or eat sugary foods.
Of course, you may have a powerful habit, but using my strategies and other experts' tactics, you can kick it. Say NO now to sweets for the sake of your moods, health, and happiness. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 The FDA is so paralyzed by politics and its desire to balance scientific advancement, commerce, and safety that it could be letting down its guard. For instance, Daniel Troy, the chief counsel for the FDA under George W. Bush in 2004, was a political appointee who formerly worked in a Washington law firm that defended the interests of pharmaceutical companies. As reported by Drug Store News (December 22, 2004, "FDA Chief Counsel Resigns"), he worked as a "friend of the court" on cases in which pharmaceutical companies had been sued for drug-safety problems. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 The world of medicine is similar to the world of politics. In democracies people demand a change of government when they are dissatisfied with the performance of the present one,- and we believe that if there was sufficient demand?people-power'?pressuring orthodox medicine to provide alternative avenues to health, it would be motivated to change. Preventing illness is just as vital as curing illness and society today is seeking choices and guidance to improve health and secure a disease-free future. |
Roberta Bivins
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 Most of Mesmer's successful cases were among middle- and upper-class women, whose attendance at his clinic was due as much to fashion and politics as to medical complaints. These patients, surrounded by acquaintances and fellow sufferers, were fixed by the intense gaze, and sometimes stroked by the wand, of Dr Mesmer. If a 'crisis' was produced, the individual might faint, cry out—perhaps with pleasure, perhaps in pain?or even fall into a fit. |
| On grounds of access, affordability, and potential for advancement, then, homeopathy was attractive to individual consumers and practitioners alike; in terms of politics, homeopathy was chosen, rather than imposed, and brought Indians into an international community as equals. But what of creed? Was there anything in the homeopathic system itself-—from similia similibus curantur to the doctrine of infinitesimals—that rendered it particularly suitable to India in a way that mesmerism and allopathy were not? |
| The chronology of medical regulation in America during this period demonstrates both the surging but often thwarted ambitions of medical practitioners, and the close relationship between culture, politics, and medical pluralism. Before the 1830s, medicine in the United States largely followed the professional model established in Britain. Medical societies were founded (the first, in Boston, in 1736), as were medical schools (beginning with the College of Philadelphia in 1765). |
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