Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  They can even set up Rx vending machines with voice interaction that claims to offer a "virtual pharmacist" to prescribe drugs! But in the end, the only people stupid enough to actually use these machines will be the same people who frequent soda pop and junk food vending machines right now: The ignorant, easily-controlled segment of the population that still somehow believes drugs are good for them and that the FDA is looking out for their best interests. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  The head of this last organization, whose members include the Coca Cola Company, PepsiCo, Kraft Foods, Cadbury Schweppes, the Snack Food Association, the American Beverage Association (formerly the National Soft
Drink Association), and the Sugar Association, reportedly once stated that soda-and-candy-filled vending machines in schools don't play a role in the obesity crisis. "You can take every vending machine out of schools, and I don't believe you'd touch the obesity issue in children," Dr. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Jump directly to: conventional view | bottom line
What you need to know - Conventional View
The Child Nutrition Promotion and School Lunch Protection Act calls on the USDA to update what CSPI says are "disco-era nutrition standards" for school foods (e.g., vending machines, school stores, and a la carte in the cafeteria).
The Act would take the USDA's current standards of limiting the sale of foods of minimal value, currently applicable only to cafeterias during meal times, and extend it to apply throughout the school day and everywhere on school grounds. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  They also buy all the prime shelf space at grocery stores, sponsor the big sporting events, and have successfully infiltrated schools and hospitals with junk food restaurants and vending machines. Heck, there's still a McDonald's restaurant in the Cleveland Clinic where they perform heart surgery!
If the birds and the bees have figured out how to raise healthy offspring, you'd think that humans might have the brain power to raise their own healthy children, too. And some parents are. |
Mike Adams
See book keywords and concepts | | We should also ban vending machines, especially from public schools and work places when those vending machines offer junk foods that contain ingredients known to promote disease.
We can also tax foods by levying things such as the junk food tax. Although I'm not a big fan of increasing taxes or using taxes for social reform, it is true that taxing junk foods would make them less affordable to most citizens and might cause some people to choose alternative sources of food such as healthy snack foods. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | This is particularly pertinent to understand the rapidly increasing prevalence of obesity, as people are constantly bombarded with beautiful images of appetizing food items through television advertising, print ads, vending machines, or product packaging in order to promote food intake."
"Clearly, some people are more susceptible to a company's advertising messages," says Dr. Calder, speaking by phone. "What we don't know is how easy or hard it is to control these urges. | | Then, in May 2006, the nation's three top soft drink companies, faced with threats of a lawsuit from the Center for Science in the Public Interest advocacy group, announced that they would voluntarily stop selling caloric soda and iced teas in school vending machines and cafeterias at public schools nationwide by the 2009-2010 school year.
The much-ballyhooed deal was brokered by the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a collaboration between former President Clinton's William J. Clinton Foundation and the American Heart Association. | | Specifically, family groups seek to abolish highly lucrative "pouring rights," contracts whereby soft drink companies fork over millions of dollars to school districts by making payments over a 5-to-10-year period in return for the exclusive rights to sell their soft drinks in vending machines on school premises and at school events.
This financial arrangement is particularly loathsome to health advocates. | | It's really a desperate attempt by soda companies to stay in the schools," says Commercial Alert's Ruskin, who found fault with the fact that the deal doesn't address advertising in schools—on Channel One, and on scoreboards and vending machines.
Furthermore, both Ruskin and Michele Simon, founder of the Center for Informed Food Choices, worry that the plan has no enforcement mechanism, no oversight, and no accountability. "Is Bill Clinton going to run around to every school to make sure the policy gets implemented? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | But in the end, the only people stupid enough to actually use these machines will be the same people who frequent soda pop and junk food vending machines right now: The ignorant, easily-controlled segment of the population that still somehow believes drugs are good for them and that the FDA is looking out for their best interests. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | And urge your kids' schools to carry vending machines that stock more healthy foods."
Learn. Study about the diet-behavior connection. "What your child eats or doesn't eat directly relates to how he or she thinks, feels, and acts," Ruggiero says. Put into practice tips from Little Sugar Addicts by Dr. DesMaisons, Allergies and the Hyperactive Child by Dr. Rapp, Feed Your Kids Right by Lendon Smith, M.D., and Ruggiero's The Do's and Don'ts of Hypoglycemia.
Make TV the exception, not the rule. Encourage your child to be active instead of watching TV or playing video games. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  We're looking for public school officials who want to blow the whistle on soft drink companies and junk food companies who pressure schools into accepting vending machines that feed garbage foods to kids. What tactics did these companies use? What were the results on attendance, grades, and student behavior? Have you tried to get vending machines out of your school and met with stiff resistance? Click here to contact us or call us at (520) 232-9300.
Does anyone know which hospitals and clinics are owned by the pharmaceutical company Astrazeneca? |
Jack Challem
See book keywords and concepts |  Fast-food restaurants form clusters around schools, and, unfortunately, school cafeterias and vending machines aren't much better, nutritionally. In perhaps the greatest irony of all, fast-food restaurants are common in children's hospitals and other medical centers with extensive pediatric programs. In a survey of two hundred such hospitals, fifty-nine had fast-food restaurants, such as McDonald's, located on site.
Global Problems
Americans now have the dubious honor of being the fattest people in the world; however, the citizens of most other countries are quickly catching up. |
Gabriel Cousens
See book keywords and concepts |  Cadmium sources include tap water, fungicides, marijuana, processed meat, rubber, seafood (cod, haddock, oyster, tuna), sewage, tobacco, colas (especially from vending machines), tools, welding material, evaporated milk, airborne industrial contaminants, batteries, instant coffee, incineration of tires/rubber/plastic, refined grains, soft water, galvanized pipes, dental alloys, candy, ceramics, electroplating, fertilizers, paints, motor oil, and motor exhaust. |
Mark Schapiro
See book keywords and concepts |  More than seventy products fall under the purview of the directive, including computers, washing machines, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, toasters, medical devices, radiotherapy equipment, fluorescent lamps, television sets, video games, cordless telephones, candy vending machines, and "automatic dispensers for hot or cold bottles or cans. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
See book keywords and concepts |  Reduce the availability of vending machines with soft drinks and high-fat, high-sugar snack foods.
?Involve families and communities in supporting and reinforcing healthy eating patterns.
Physical Activity
?Require and fund daily physical education and sports programs in primary and secondary schools.
?Provide adequate training for physical education teachers to promote higher levels of physical activity during classes.
?Ensure the provision of adequate space and necessary athletic/ sports equipment.
? | | Food away from home includes foods obtained at restaurants, fast-food places, school cafeterias, and vending machines. A number of factors account for the increasing trend in eating out, including a growing number of working women (75% of women 25-50 years old are in the workforce), more two-earner households, higher incomes, a desire for convenience foods because of busy lifestyles and little time for preparing meals, more fast-food outlets offering affordable food, smaller families, and increased advertising and promotion by large food-service chains and fast-food outlets [191]. |
Jack Challem
See book keywords and concepts | | For many years, companies have had lucrative deals with public schools to stock vending machines with sugary soft drinks and high-sugar snacks. Although these companies are now withdrawing some of their high-calorie beverages and snacks from schools because of public pressure, we fear that the damage has already been done.
In the United States, the giant fast-food and soft drink companies compete for increased sales using marketing plans that resemble military battle plans. With the U.S. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  And they didn't have vending machines loaded with snacks. Today, various estimates are that we have a ratio of omega-6 fats to omega-3 fats of 10 or even 25 to l.118
Our grandparents had another tradition that kept their omega-6 to omega-3 ratio under control: cod liver oil! As awful as it tasted, this old-fashioned remedy was loaded with omega-3 fatty acids. In the 18th century cod liver oil was considered a useful arthritis remedy. The trouble with this dietary supplement is that it contains way too much vitamin A, which may be bad for bones. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | Have you tried to get vending machines out of your school and met with stiff resistance? Click here to contact us or call us at (520) 232-9300.
Does anyone know which hospitals and clinics are owned by the pharmaceutical company Astrazeneca? The drug company reportedly owns eleven hospitals and cancer clinics that dispense the company's own drugs to patients. We'd like to know which eleven.
Are you a cancer patient who was strongly pressured by your oncologist into chemotherapy or radiation treatments? Were you told that antioxidants would "interfere" with the chemotherapy? |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Fifty years later, introduced in vending machines, the pistachio became a popular snack food, and the birth of the California pistachio industry followed shortly thereafter.
Today, 110,000 acres of pistachios are planted in California, and 98 percent of America's pistachio crop—a record-breaking 302.4 million pounds in 2002—is produced in this state.
Currently, pistachios are the eighth leading nut crop in the world, with approximately 220,500 metric tons produced annually, principally in Iran and Turkey. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  You can train people to press buttons on vending machines or pull levers on blackjack machines. How do you train them? You do it through mass media advertising. The training with the lab rats is a little more personal, but the population at large in the United States or other developed countries is trained through television, cable, magazines and so on. You train them by flashing positive imagery, usually involving sex, and then quickly interweaving images about your own products.
If this is done back and forth quickly enough, it creates an almost subliminal effect. It's sex -- and then, soda. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  He probably intends to work his way through the vending machines and other food offerings until every item available for sale at the hospital is consistent with heart health.
Another interesting point about all of this is that some of the workers at the clinic don't appreciate the hospital acting as their parents. They think this attitude by Toby Cosgrove is paternalistic and that they should have the right to make their own decisions about what they want to eat. | | There are vending machines and cafeteria offerings that are equally unhealthy, because they are very high in sodium, high in saturated fat and lack nutrient density. Thus there are all sorts of foods available in the hospital that are bad for heart patients. Of course, that doesn't mean McDonald's food is any healthier, it just means that the entire Clinic is a nutritional disaster, and that Cosgrove is on the right track by starting with McDonald's. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  We should also ban vending machines, especially from public schools and work places when those vending machines offer junk foods that contain ingredients known to promote disease.
We can also tax foods by levying things such as the junk food tax. Although I'm not a big fan of increasing taxes or using taxes for social reform, it is true that taxing junk foods would make them less affordable to most citizens and might cause some people to choose alternative sources of food such as healthy snack foods. |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  Carry Protein-Rich Snack Food with You
Forget the vending machines, the airport kiosks, and the 7-Eleven stores. Start thinking of snack food in terms of real food, and start thinking of real food in terms of protein (and fat)—just what your hunting and gathering ancestors would most likely have been munching on while taking a break from stalking wild game. Think nuts, cheese (string cheese is a great choice), hard-boiled eggs, jerky, or some leftover chicken in a plastic bag. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | We should also ban vending machines, especially from public schools and work places when those vending machines offer junk foods that contain ingredients known to promote disease.
We can also tax foods by levying things such as the junk food tax. Although I'm not a big fan of increasing taxes or using taxes for social reform, it is true that taxing junk foods would make them less affordable to most citizens and might cause some people to choose alternative sources of food such as healthy snack foods. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
See book keywords and concepts |  In an aggressive effort to increase sales, profits and create lifelong customers, fast-food and soft drink companies have contracts, often worth millions of dollars, to provide food service and vending machines, at more than 5,000 U.S. schools to date. As the Scary Statistics reveal, acquired tastes and regular consumption of high fat-sugar-sodium, processed and fast-food items are leaving children and adults prone to obesity and dis-ease at increasingly younger ages. |
Alex Steffen
See book keywords and concepts |  Remember when hospitals had cigarette vending machines in their waiting rooms and ashtrays in their recovery rooms? With any luck, we'll soon look back on Big Macs in hospital cafeterias with the same incredulity, al
Better Restaurants
For some people, part of the joy of going out to dinner is not having to do any work until a plate of food arrives under your nose. What that also means is that generally, you don't have to put a single thought toward where that food came from. A variety of shocking and horrifying fast-food practices have inspired growing awareness in most people's minds. |
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