Ann N. Martin
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 The health and welfare of our animal companions are in our hands, which means we cannot blindly trust what slick advertising would have us believe nor should we depend on obscure labeling.
Unquestionably, the commercial pet food industry provides consumers with vague terms that mask what is actually in the food and what can legally be included as ingredients. Many consumers have contacted me to ask about specific pet foods, and I always encourage them to contact the pet food company directly. Often, they are stonewalled or receive more vague information. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 Infant welfare clinics will often refer you to trained infant massage therapists. Massage may also help relieve colicky or fretful babies.
Relaxation can also be mastered by children through playing games like the elephant walk (see Chapter 6). And, of course, sometimes just a simple cuddle of a baby or child will be reassuring and comforting enough to relieve the child's distress.
Other activities that will help children with asthma control their breathing from the diaphragm are learning to sing or play a wind or brass instrument. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 This figure includes expenditures on medication, hospitalization, welfare, police, and court costs, as well as loss of productivity. Medication expenses may be as high as $5,000 per year. Each day a schizophrenic spends
65 in hospital costs more than $1,200. Court and legal costs are unknown, but in Victoria, British Columbia, for example, the local police are called about 300 times each year to deal with chronic, homeless, schizophrenic patients. |
David R. Montgomery
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 Thefe appears to be no government that fealizes its duty 'to promote the public welfare' by . . . impressing upon them the obligation which every cultivator of the soil owes to posterity, not to leave the earth in a less fruitful condition than he found it."27 Before the start of the Civil War, agricultural periodicals throughout the country assailed the twin evils of soil erosion and exhaustion. As the shortage of fresh land became acute, pleas to adopt soil conservation and improvement techniques became increasingly common. |
Devra Davis
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 Dobbs, who had charge of the girl, had taken her when a small child, and had reported to Miss Duke, the temporary secretary of Public welfare for Albemarle County, that the girl was pregnant and that she wanted to have her committed somewhere—to have her sent to some institution."
Miss Wilhelm then rendered her judgment of Vivian Buck by comparing her with the normal granddaughter of Mrs. Dobbs, born just three days earlier:
"It is difficult to judge probabilities of a child as young as that, but it seems to me not quite a normal baby. |
Ann N. Martin
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| Animal People, an on-line organization devoted to the health and welfare of pets, reported in June 2001 that P&G stated its intention to phase out animal testing as fast as alternatives can be developed and approved by regulators. According to P&G, "The new code of ethics reflects the decision made two years ago by lams to start no further studies which required euthanasia of cats and dogs. It applies to all lams research in the development of pet food, regardless of whether it is conducted by universiries, our own scientists, or others. |
Devra Davis
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| Joseph Califano ran the Department of Health, Education and welfare. Each one of these men smoked more than a pack a day at the time of their appointment to the government.
By the time they left office, each had quit smoking. But the controversies about smoking had not quit them. The battle over passive smoking had become the next front. EPA scientists had shown that indoor levels of fine particles from cigarette smoking could far exceed those for which they had already set standards outdoors. |
Charles Barber
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 By the 1980s, Americans no longer believed, for the most part, in social programs. welfare mothers and the like were so successfully vilified by Reagan that politicians could no longer publicly support such programs and get elected. The era of governmental solutions to national problems and challenges (Social Security, the GI Bill, the Great Society, the Space Program) that began with the New Deal ended—if not in reality, at least ideologically—with Reagan. The individual, the self, religion, and the family unit (leading to the 1990s ideological issue of "family values") were again paramount. |
Ann N. Martin
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| The pet food industry claims to care about the health and welfare of our pets by providing complete and balanced diets. It is apparent from the ingredients used in these foods that they are nutritionally devoid of healthy and wholesome ingredients. In my opinion, the vitamin and mineral supplements, which are added to make up for what is lacking in the foods, are also inferior. We simply cannot expect our animal companions to enjoy good health and a long life if we feed them a garbage diet. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| You can make it a welfare system, a state-sponsored bureaucracy, or anything in between. You can pay doctors and nurses high salaries, or you can pay them a pittance. You can set aside a special niche for insurance underwriters or pharmaceutical CEOs who, by the very nature of their involvement, are profit-driven. You may also eliminate them from your plan entirely. You may operate your hospitals, your doctors' offices, or your emergency rooms on a first-come, first served basis, by appointment only, or any other way you see fit. You can offer free drugs; you can offer costly drugs. |
Joseph Campbell
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| Coomaraswamy, "The Perilous Bridge of welfare," Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 8).
22 Stekel, Die Sprache des Traumes, p. 287. 28 Ibid., p. 286. 24 "The problem is not new," writes Dr. C. G. Jung, "for all ages before us have believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled theless, in the multitude of myths and legends that have been preserved to us, or collected from the ends of the earth, we may yet see delineated something of our still human course. To hear and profit, however, one may have to submit somehow to purgation and surrender. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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 He felt he wanted to come to know God and work more directly for human welfare. He went to work as the head of one of the world's largest humanitarian aid organizations. As he continued to deepen his spirituality, he shifted his focus even further. He volunteered in one of the organizations that he oversaw as a board member, and for six months he worked with a poor, uneducated man and taught him to read. Only then did he find a modicum of the peace he was looking for.
But his story doesn't end there. |
| Remaining open to the reconstruction of one's belief system is essential to individual wellbeing and to growth in social welfare.
Bell, John Stewart—Born June 28, 1928, in Belfast, Ireland, Bell was a physicist who became well known as the originator of Bell's theorem, regarded by some in the quantum mechanics community as one of the most important theorems of the twentieth century. |
| She was devoted to God and to human welfare. She seemed to me to be very pure of heart. Still, though outwardly calm and sophisticated, she carried enough anxiety around with her to sink the Titanic.
During our first session, she said, "I have a confession to make ... the worst thing I've ever done ... I've never told it to anyone." She went on to say that, while a junior in college, she entered a contest for "Centerfold Campus Coed." She won and very briefly embarked on a career as a nude centerfold model. "The money was so good and I was desperate, so I did it. |
| Throughout, I taught her to take a different approach toward life, letting others take more responsibility for their welfare. I told her, "If God wanted you to be a beast of burden you'd have been born a donkey." She heard me and learned to take it a little easier. She found her voice and recovered from her depression. Together with her husband, they moved their mothers off the farm. Her back healed, and she could ride again. Her outlook on life improved enormously. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 Department of Health, Education and welfare, Washington, DC.
225. Cesar, T. B., Oliveira, M. R., Mesquita, C. H., and Maranhao, R. C. (2006). High cholesterol intake modifies chylomicron metabolism in normolipidemic young men. J. Nutr. 136, 971-976.
226. Weggemans, R. M., Zock, P. L., and Katan, M. B. (2001). Dietary cholesterol from eggs increases the ratio of total cholesterol to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol in humans: A meta-analysis. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 73, 885-891.
227. Kratz, M. (2005). Dietary cholesterol, atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease. Handb. Exp. Pharmacol. |
Ann N. Martin
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| Dan Cary, Director of Technical Communications for lams said that his company cared about the welfare of animals. He justified the scientific studies as being carried out to save pets from illnesses and improve physical well-being."7 This is hard to believe in light of one of their "scientific" studies. This study involved regularly inflicting chest wounds on twelve huskies, twelve poodles, and twelve Labradors to see if diet could affect fur regrowth.
Although P&G has stated that the company will phase out animal testing, this does not cover the testing done by outside laboratories. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 Members of the Ways and Means Committee were still bickering over which bill to support when Mills launched a preemptive strike on March 2, 1965, calling Wilbur Cohen, an assistant secretary for the Department of Health, Education, and welfare, to a meeting of the committee. At the meeting, Mills told the Republicans he liked their Bettercare idea so much that he intended to fold it into the Medicare legislation, creating a three-tiered program. |
Devra Davis
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| Under the leadership of Jane Addams and Julia Ward Howe, the federation tackled some of the most troubling social issues of the twentieth century, including women's suffrage, birth control, child labor, Indian welfare and illiteracy.5 One can imagine that Little saw them as a group to which he could make his sales pitch with complete frankness.
One of those whom Little impressed was Marjorie B. Illig. Her biography describes her as a "radiologist until marriage ."The choices for women in any profession at the time were limited: either be married or have a career. |
| When these news reports about Gori's declarations came out appearing to endorse smoking, Califano was still head of Health, Education and welfare. He was furious. He asked Arthur Upton, the director of the NCI, what the hell was going on. Upton called Schneiderman from his vacation home in Salisbury Cove, Maine, and asked if he had any idea what Gori was talking about.Yes, he had seen the calculations, Schneiderman said, and he didn't agree with them at all. |
Bill Sardi
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 Public health authorities and pharmaceutical interests are often in collusion without regard for public welfare.
Approximately two-thirds of the world's population is infected with H. pylori. Infected persons have a 2- to 6-fold increased risk of developing gastric cancer and mucosal-asso-ciated-lymphoid-type (MALT) lymphoma compared with their uninfected counterparts. The Centers for Disease Control says that because the source of H. pylori is not yet known, they have not issued any recommendations for avoiding infection. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 And if you're one of those bleeding hearts— like me—who actually cares about the welfare of animals, it's easier to make peace with eating animals that have had reasonably healthy, happy lives and quick and painless deaths.
The operative term here is "theoretically."
Can We Trust the Term "Free Range"?
Recently, there's been quite a controversy as to exactly how "free range" free-range chickens really are. Birds raised for meat ("broilers") may be considered "free range" if they have USDA-certified access to the outdoors. Note the word "access. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The state of California has come down very hard on doctors who put the patients' welfare first and their own welfare second, and work with the patient on a wide variety of things that maybe aren't approved, but certainly are safe.
Mike: In various articles, I've often stated I believe cancer is almost universally preventable with nutrition and medicinal herbs and other therapies. In the vast majority of cases it is reversible if detected in the early stages. I'm just curious, is that a statement you agree with or disagree with, or what are your thoughts on that? |
Devra Davis
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| Joseph Califano, the activist secretary of Health Education and welfare under President Jimmy Carter, had not only taken on Big Tobacco, as we saw in Chapter 7, he also went after the chemical industry. In testimony before Congress in 1978, Califano stated that up to 20 percent of cancer in the future would be due to workplace exposure. This shocking number sent the public relations industry into full battle mode. Others have written about this conflict. In making this prediction, Califano was trying to prevent more cancer. But the debate soon was turned upside down. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 This area of Japan has a much lower death rate from cancer for both men and women than does the country as a whole, according to vital statistics gathered by the Japanese Ministry of Health and welfare. Intrigued by this phenomenon, epidemiologists decided to delve deeper. They discovered that green tea was a staple product in the tea-producing Shizuoka region; people living in this area drank more cups of green tea than the average Japanese. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| Hospitals are unaccustomed to being held responsible for the welfare of their patients. Older physicians who don't want to type won't like electronic medical records. Specialists won't like seeing their incomes restrained. Many of them in cities like Los Angeles will find there are fewer positions available. Other doctors will simply resist the idea that the hospital and Medicare can look over their shoulders. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Sadly, as the above examples illustrate, the bottom line and political power are often at odds with the health and welfare of our nation's citizens. Given the realities of doing business in America—the processed-food industry needs to make money to survive—it's simply unrealistic to expect the interests of we, the people, to come first.
While Big Sugar and Big Food are taking some positive steps to confront the epidemics of obesity, diabetes, and other diet-related illnesses, Dr. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Their professional knowledge allows them to translate "anecdotal stories" into meaningful statistics that impact on patient welfare.
Another important consideration is the recent introduction of "counterfeit" drugs that have entered the system. Large wholesale pharmacy suppliers must be more cognizant of their sources.3 The pharmacists who deal directly with patients need to know more about the pills dispensed than the description on the computer. The $155 billion prescription drug market is not a place for shady wholesalers. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 The Department of Health, Education, and welfare grew concerned that the United States might be about to see another large national flu pandemic, involving numbers of influenza deaths reminiscent of the flu pandemic of 1918. The federal government deemed it prudent to vaccinate all Americans. In October 1976, the National Influenza Immunization Program officially began. Initially, nearly 1 million Americans were vaccinated each week, with the number growing to more than 4 million a week by the end of that first month. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Grossman would be well-served to recognize that patient welfare, not corporate profitability, is the measure of a doctor's success. When a doctor becomes a corporate prostitute, does he renounce the Hippocratic Oath in favor of one honoring Mammon?
Reference to Mammon calls to mind others who prostitute themselves. Professional athletes, recognized media stars, and other celebrities regularly serve Big Pharma by indiscriminately hawking their products. These people attract the media, attract consumers, and have a bully pulpit. |
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