Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Now, I knew there were problems with the public school system, I knew that a lot of public education was a complete waste of time and that many public schools are nothing more than taxpayer funded daycare. But even I was horrified to learn that our public schools are turning into mental institutions and forcing children to be dosed on psychoactive drugs just to be there. What happened to the right of children to have an honest education these days? |
Devra Davis
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 Britain had been hit hard by World War II, physically and economically In addition, the British approach to public education focused on preserving resources rather than protecting people. As a result, efforts to promote screening and public education regarding cervical cancer were seen as likely to stir up public hysteria and also threaten health care costs. Just after World War II, gynecologist Malcolm Donaldson tried and failed to persuade the British Empire Cancer Campaign (BECC) that its prewar program of lay cancer education should be enlarged to a national campaign. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Why are we teaching algebra but not how to estimate a 10 percent waiter's tip in your head? Our public education system is a massive failure, and if it weren't for the courageous sacrifices of the front-line teachers, counselors and school workers trying to make a difference, we would have no functional education system at all. It's time for massive reforms in this country; both in public education and energy usage. |
Anne Harrington
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 In 1984, the Mental Health Association of Onondaga County in Syracuse, New York, launched a public education campaign called "Friends can be good medicine."26 Self magazine reviewed the evidence for the health benefits of social support in 1998, asking its readers "Have You Hugged Your Immune System Today?"27 And in his best-selling book from 2000, Bowling Alone, political scientist Robert Putnam put the choices to his readers this way: "As a rough rule of thumb, if you belong to no groups but decide to join one, you cut your risk of dying over the next year in half. |
Mike Adams
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| Fund public education campaigns
Another thing we should do as a nation is fund public education advertising campaigns that teach parents and the public about good nutrition. We need to have television ads, radio ads, and magazine ads that counter the billions of dollars in advertising promoting soft drinks, snack foods, fast foods, and other junk foods that cause obesity and chronic disease.
One way to battle that is to run public service announcements that counter the hype with the truth about health and nutrition. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Ultimately, if we are going to save our planet and human civilization from self-induced climate change chaos, we are going to have to do something about our public education system, too.
Why are we teaching high school students useless geometry theorems while neglecting to teach them how to read labels while shopping at the grocery store? Why are we teaching algebra but not how to estimate a 10 percent waiter's tip in your head? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It enhances the diversity of stories on NewsTarget and allows a community of writers to contribute to an important public education effort about natural health, eco-conscious living, renewable energy, disease prevention and similar topics.
NewsTarget is now accepting applications from writers, authors and news reporters. Click here to apply to be a writer. Additional information about the program is available at: http://www.newstarget.com/021982. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Treasury debt), an international reputation in ruins, a dysfunctional national press, a national health care system that actually promotes disease and cures no one, a mentally impaired President, a broken public education system, an irreversible addiction to oil, a drugged-up population of voters and a deeply-ingrained habit of spending itself into financial oblivion. Anyone who thinks this system is sustainable is kidding themselves. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This public education effort, of course, would not be tolerated by the FDA Gestapo. So the FDA organized an armed raid comprised of nine FDA agents, 11 U.S. Marshals and eight Oregon state police. With guns drawn, they kicked in the doors to Ken Scott's business and conducted one of the most terror-driven "vitamin" raids in U.S. history.
For the next 11 hours, agents confiscated nearly everything they could find at Highland Laboratories. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The rest of the world has figured out that drug ads really aren't "public education campaigns" as the drug companies claim, and are, in fact, promotions. But here in the U.S., that simple, obvious fact somehow escapes the discerning observation skills of the Food and Drug Administration.
If we really want to protect the U.S. population from the fraudulent advertising, pharmaceutical quackery and disease mongering of the pharmaceutical industry, it's time to re-ban direct-to-consumer drug advertising. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 We are not arguing that lives have prices, but rather that wise health policy must consider, among other factors, cost-effective decisions. public education about diet or the importance of antioxidants, to cite two examples, might be a wiser investment and accomplish more in mortality reduction than gained by colorectal screening. The implications for this book are not so clear: there is some evidence that screening saves lives. Whether such screening is the most cost-effective approach to saving those lives (as opposed to promoting behavioral changes) is not known.
Prostate Cancer. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Mike: Now is this a public education program?
Hollender: Yes. It's a public education campaign that CHEC is launching in May, and the Blue Butterfly Campaign will focus on five tips that are the most important things you could do in your home. They'll have a number of celebrity spokespeople talking about this, and it's a privilege for us to be able to participate in this program with them because it is completely focused on education.
Mike: Now, let's remind everyone why it is important to focus on clean homes, especially with children. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It's time for massive reforms in this country; both in public education and energy usage. Changing light bulbs to LED lights is one of many ways to start making a different right now, but accomplishing it requires that the population can grasp concepts such as total cost of ownership.
Here's a joke for ya: How many lawmakers does it take to change a light bulb?
Answer: Only one, but there has to be a corporate sponsor to pay for it first.
Learn more about the total cost of ownership of light bulbs at: http://www.ecoleds.com/PR03. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 I've long been aware of the TIMSS test and how it points to the failings of public education in this country. Yet the Naperville 203 kids aced the test. Why? It's not as if Naperville is the only wealthy suburb in the country with intelligent, educated parents. And in poor districts where Naperville-style PE has taken root, such as Titusville, Pennsylvania (which I'll discuss later), test scores have improved measurably. My conviction, and my attraction to Naperville, is that its focus on fitness plays a pivotal role in its students' academic achievements. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Center for Commercial Free public education. July 8, 1998. http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=888.
Critser, Greg. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 2003.
Davis, Carole, and E. Saltos. "Dietary Recommendations and How They Have Changed Over Time." USDA website, http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/aib750/aib750b.pdf.
Drewnowski, A. "Obesity and the Food Environment: Dietary Energy Density and Diet Costs." American Journal of Preventive Medicine 27, no. 3S (2004): 154-62.
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Michele Simon
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 Instead of asking what products Coca-Cola can sell that would pass nutrition muster, we should ask how we can properly fund public education so that we don't need Coca-Cola. Until we begin to truly value children and public education by asking these broader questions, the battles over school food will rage on.
Regulating Junk Food Marketing to Children
You want that nag factor so that seven-year-old Sarah is nagging Mom in the grocery stores to buy Funky Purple. We're not sure Mom would reach out for it on her own. |
Devra Davis
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| But the WFA was largely devoted to public education; neither it nor the ASCC had done much to promote research or control the causes of cancer. As the Laskers saw it, this folksy approach would never raise the serious money needed to support a big-time research effort.
After challenging Little in 1943 to come up with ways to treat the affliction that had killed her cook, Mary Lasker became deeply involved with ASCC. She got herself onto the board of directors through her social skills and ready checkbook. |
| As a result, efforts to promote screening and public education regarding cervical cancer were seen as likely to stir up public hysteria and also threaten health care costs. Just after World War II, gynecologist Malcolm Donaldson tried and failed to persuade the British Empire Cancer Campaign (BECC) that its prewar program of lay cancer education should be enlarged to a national campaign. Those in charge of such matters in Britain looked down on their Yankee compatriots who were committed to fighting cancer with public knowledge. |
| Set up as the ASCC's public education arm and fielding battalions in every state, WFA members marched door-to-door collecting money and handing out pamphlets. They organized public events, canvassed neighbors and friends to raise money and generally spread the word about cancer, with a candor that even today seems refreshing.
The ASCC's motto had been "Fight Cancer with Knowledge ."The WFA altered it slightly to "Cancer Thrives on Ignorance. Fight It with Knowledge. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 When even the consumer awareness program appeared to be too controversial for industry, the EPA backed off this proposal too, deferring instead to the American Wood Preservers Institute and the Society of American Wood Preservers to run a voluntary public education program as opposed to any required controls. The two major manufacturers of pentachlorophenol objected to the proposed reduction in dioxin contamination put forward by the EPA. The EPA further modified its proposal, increasing the allowed amount of dioxin by 100 percent overall and by 400 percent in any one batch of the preservative. |
| Kay largely abandoned his interest in physical health, including the study of lung disease, focusing almost exclusively on moral well-being, especially insofar as this might be fostered through public education. The North of England Medical and Surgical Journal had been in print just long enough to review Thackrah's text on occupational disease on its initial publication in 1831, highlighting his original observations on the illnesses of flax workers as particularly noteworthy.
Dr. Charles Turner Thackrah died on 23 May 1833, one day past his thirty-eighth birthday. |
| How can public education on chemical hazards be so poor rhat one can still purchase on the Internet a how-to kit for a classroom exercise called "the barking dog" experiment, in which phosphorous is dissolved in carbon disulfide that evaporates into the room so that the phosphorous ignites with a "woof"?84
It seems that the only group paying attention to carbon disulfide is the writing staff of General Hospital. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 At that time, we'll be gladly accepting donations from both readers and companies (although donations from drug companies will be politely rejected) to fund our many nutrition and health public education programs.
One of the primary projects for the non-profit will be our NFEM program: Nutrition For Expectant Mothers. It's designed to teach expecting moms how to nourish their babies to maximize their health and avoid birth defects. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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L- Carnitine: The Energy Shuttle
One of the major advances in cardiovascular disease over the last two decades has been the reduction in the number of heart attacks, probably the result of tremendous efforts at public education and awareness, and successful efforts at risk factor modification. But during this same twenty-year period, deaths from heart failure have more than doubled. To look into this problem, 159 of our leading cardiologists met regularly for several years, and reported their findings. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Rights and access to a public education. b. Rights to access to health care, as doctors discharge them as patients. c. Rights to food because often moms on Medicaid are refused food stamps.
These rights—including the right to refuse—must be ensured. When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us—and force us to vaccinate and medicate our children in the name "health" and "policy" and for "die greater good" we, in essence, accept that the state owns our bodies, and, apparently, our children.
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Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 In The Intergenerational School, we are demonstrating that a different model of public education can not only provide better learning for children, but can also create opportunities for older adults to contribute in a purposeful way to the future of their communities, share their collective wisdom, and stay cognitively vital in the process. |
| It is committed to innovation in public education, with a pedagogical focus on lifelong, developmentally appropriate learning in service of community.
What is my life if I am no longer useful to others?
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children aged six to twelve celebrate learning in the company of older adults. Some of these older adults are students from local colleges (including my university, Case Western Reserve); others are senior citizens with memory challenges, some of whom have received Alzheimer's diagnoses and pills for their condition. One such volunteer is Mrs. |
| When Cathy and I visited Finland, a country renowned for its public education system, they were most interested in our Intergenerational School because they believe that they have a cultural problem with "silent knowledge." This is the wisdom of elders that is going unheard by the younger generations because of changes in living patterns (families and their children are now living in separate locations from their grandparents). The recognition of this wisdom is a valuable lesson for American culture, and the rest of the aging world. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Besides, any such recognition of the financial problems now facing this nation requires the observers to actually be able to do basic math. Our public education system, which is now largely considered institutionalized day care for nutritionally-deficient children, has seen to it that mathematics instruction never gets in the way of diagnosing children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and drugging them up on amphetamines so powerful that they actually have a street value as recreational drugs.
Thus, few young Americans can even do math. |
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