| Big corporations who drive out local businesses and large companies who avoid providing employee benefits by maintaining large rolls of part-time employees are not good citizens, they are merely corporate predators. Buying your pharmaceuticals at Wal-Mart or CVS and other corporate entities might save you money, but that savings is realized at the expense of their workers.
Responsible Individuals
Take responsibility for your own health. Find a doctor who you would feel comfortable calling a friend. Opt for older, well-proven health remedies. |
Ron Garner
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 His family and employees had visited him for the last time, and his doctors had given up hope. As far as everyone was concerned, Dr. Jensen was dead.
When I first came to see Dr. Jensen he was down to 76 pounds. He was skin and bone and just wanted to die. So I asked him, "Do you want to live? And if so, why?" The first thing we had to do was kindle his desire to fight for his life. I reminded him about all the old friends we had worked with over the years, the ones who were the 'great-greats' and who are all gone now. |
Ray Dodd
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 Their employees were military, erect, and conditioned to respond to orders. Everything was shipshape. Even their clothes looked like Air Force enlisted-personnel uniforms. The employees weren't acting independently because they were the supporting cast reading off Allan and Susan's script.
The second company I visited was owned by Bill, a pordy man in his early 40s who had started several air-conditioning service companies throughout California and was now living in Ensenada, Mexico. |
Charles Barber
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 The FDA's drug-marketing enforcement arm has only forty employees.41 Ads do not have to be reviewed and approved before they are aired. "A company could blanket the airwaves with ads for forty-five days before the FDA finishes its review. Even if the ads are pulled, a lot of folks will now be asking their doctor for that drug, which could have risks that weren't fully explained," says Bill Vaughan, a senior policy analyst for Consumers Union, which publishes Consumer Reports.*2
Beyond that, the FDA lacks the capacity to actually fine companies for marketing abuses. |
Anne Harrington
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 A story about mind-body processes can begin in the realm of human affairs and morality ("His boss was forever screaming at his employees") and end in the realm of pathophysiology ("One day, he suddenly keeled over with a heart attack"). When we tell or hear such a story, most of us experience a sense of narrative closure—worlds have been brought together and we understand something, even if we are wholly unable to say anything coherent about the specific causal processes by which an unpleasant managerial style turns into an infarction. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 A study of 5,369 employees of twenty-one Israeli factories also focused on a population that primarily drank black tea. Besides the use of black tea instead of the more health-protecting green tea in Israel, there were very few tea drinkers of any sort in this study population. Nonetheless, as the daily number of cups of tea grew, total cholesterol levels shrank. There was also a trend toward lower LDL-cholesterol levels and higher HDL-cholesterol levels in these men and women. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 For some reason, the brain trust in our government has not figured out how to provide significant legislation to reward people for leading a healthier lifestyle or reward companies for providing programs that help improve the health of employees. After all, we live in a performance-based society driven by incentives.
The biggest incentives government has to offer are tax deductions or tax credits. But when it comes to current tax benefits related to health and fitness, they don't add up to much. |
Charles Barber
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| Georgia now has almost four hundred peer specialists, all former patients suffering from severe mental illness and now all regular state employees. Five other states now have Medicaid-reimbursable peer services.19
Researchers at Yale have studied the role of patients in helping other patients engage in treatment. (Full disclosure: I worked on this study.) They added peer specialists to what are called Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) teams. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 Another study of a group of employees showed reductions in stress levels and depression, and improvements in feelings of health and vitality after a twenty-four-week program of aerobic exercise when compared to a control group. In a 1985 study, forty-three patients with depression, about half of whom were being treated for the condition with antidepressants, were randomized to receive nine weeks of exercise training (aerobic for one hour, three times a week at 50% to 70% maximum aerobic capacity) or occupational therapy. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 Severe illnesses such as allergic reactions, hay fever, asthma attacks and repeated respiratory infections plague employees of badly ventilated offices, and absenteeism impairs productivity for the employer and industry in general.
In many situations, the major culprit is inefficient air conditioning. Poorly planned installations do not allow effective access to areas that need to be kept clean and dry to prevent them becoming a breeding ground for fungi and bacteria. Often the air is contaminated due to badly situated intakes being affected by car emissions from the carpark. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And curing cancer is a threat to all the criminals participating in that industry: The non-profit employees, oncologists, doctors, federal regulators, drug company executives, med school propaganda teachers, pharmaceutical reps and many others. These people cannot allow cancer to be prevented or cured. Their jobs and careers are at stake.
Another outstanding source for learning more about the evils of the cancer industry is G. Edward Griffin. Click here to read our article about Griffin or click here for his website. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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| Psychologists are consulted by large corporations to assess prospective employees by testing their colour preferences. How does it work? Colour in lights, food and surroundings is believed to stimulate the nervous system to increase hormone production, thus affecting the body's chemical and energy balance.
Colour therapy is as old as the Healing Temples of Light and Colour which stood at Heliopolis in Ancient Egypt. It has been used for thousands of years by the Chinese. |
Jack Challem
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 According to surveys, three-fourths of Americans describe their work as stressful, and one-fourth of employees believe that work is their main source of stress. Up to 90 percent of visits to primary care physicians are for health problems related to stress. In England, 58 percent of workers complain about work-related stress.
Why the emphasis on stress? In a manner of speaking, stress is the hammer that drives the nail, and the nail is what makes us want to scream. Is it any wonder that, at the end of a stressful day, some people describe themselves as "feeling hammered? |
Anne Harrington
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| It is true that, in the late 1990s, Davidson's laboratory had run tests on a group of ordinary employees who underwent Kabat-Zinn's eight-week MBSR training, finding some evidence that participating in this program (though not necessarily meditating regularly) shifted the emotional set-point in the brain and enhanced the responsiveness of people's immune systems.91 Davidson had never abandoned his interest, however, in putting the brains and minds of the most advanced monastic practitioners through their paces in the laboratory to see what he might find. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 Some doctors who are employees of managed-care companies simply do what they have to do to finish the day at five o'clock. For such physicians, the practice of medicine is not much different from the job of a toll collector on a busy highway. Their medical curiosity has burned out, and they won't have enough interest to figure out a complex medical problem.
Your antennae should alert you to a doctor who is bored with medicine. One clue is if he or she is engaged in medical research; a critical quality for success in research is curiosity. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 Their generosity is informed by studies showing that exercise reduces stress and makes for more productive employees. In 2004 researchers at Leeds Metropolitan University in England found that workers who used their company's gym were more productive and felt better able to handle their workloads. Most of the 210 participants in the study took an aerobics class at lunchtime, for forty-five minutes to an hour, but others lifted weights or practiced yoga for thirty minutes to an hour. |
| It has overseen the initial stages of the project, and now it can leave the responsibility to a team of capable employees while it moves on to new challenges.
This is how we come to know things and how activities like riding a bike become second nature. Patterns of thinking and movement that are automatic get stored in the basal ganglia, cerebellum, and brain stem—primitive areas that until recently scientists thought related only to movement. Delegating fundamental knowledge and skills to these subconscious areas frees up the rest of the brain to continue adapting, a crucial arrangement. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 After Century Clinic rebuilt and sued the FDA for the return of its property, the FDA raided it again and conducted a search of the persons and homes of the owners and employees. Patients at the clinic were reportedly interrogated and not allowed to leave without turning over their names and addresses. No charges were ever filed against the clinic or its owners.
1991: The Tijuana cancer clinic kidnapping
Jimmy Keller cured his own cancer through the use of natural medicine therapies. |
| Ken Scott and his employees were threatened with violence if they tried to set foot in the office, and his daughter, who was located miles away, was illegally detained and held in "house arrest" for 12 hours.
The FDA, you see, would not tolerate Ken Scott mailing scientific literature or articles to his customers. So in order to comply with the FDA, Scott later hired an outside mailing service owned by his daughter to run the article mailing operations.
The FDA's response to that? |
| But the intent to terrorize the Life Extension Foundation worked: employees suffered nightmares and many were afraid to come to work.
Rather than giving in to the tyranny of the FDA, Bill Faloon and the Life Extension Foundation chose to fight for their First Amendment rights. As explained by Saul Kent of the Life Extension Foundation at www.LEF.org:
Everyone we consulted, including attorneys who were FDA "experts", told us we had to submit to the FDA's authority to have any chance of surviving. We ignored all this advice and instead decided to wage all-out war against the FDA. |
| Agents rifled through the personal belonging of the employees and confiscated many items. Over the next 12 hours, they seized thousands of items, including nutritional products, files, and documents, including 5,000 newsletters that were about to be mailed to subscribers. Computers and telephones were reportedly, "…ripped from the wall," and agents seized anything they could find regardless of whether such items were actually named in the search warrant. Later analysis revealed that 80 percent of the seized items were never named in the warrant. |
Jack Challem
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| Some of us inflict our mood swings on employees and family members, and others seem hell-bent on physical violence. In 2006, police reports from across the country noted a surge in murders resulting from dumb and petty arguments, such as disagreeing over a dress, using the wrong soap dish, giving another person a dirty look, looking at someone's girlfriend the wrong way, or accidentally bumping into someone. The Philadelphia police commissioner was quoted in the New York Times as saying, "It's arguments—stupid arguments over stupid things. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 But I don't run a $100 million news operation with over a thousand employees and reporters. Simply put, we don't have the budget to do hard-core investigative journalism on every single story. Give me the budget of a paper like USA Today, and we could turn out some Pulitzer-Prize-caliber stories on what's going on with the FDA, the pharmaceutical companies, and other conspiracies taking place in the United States. But for some reason, there's no good funding for those kinds of stories. There's no money to be made in telling the truth these days. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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| Now Ellen feels like she's able to be more assertive and straightforward with her employees, and the more she interacts with them, the bolder she becomes. A huge part of the problem with social anxiety, whether it's at the level of Ellen's phobia or milder social apprehension, is that the more we withdraw, the less practice we get interacting, and the scarier the prospect becomes. It might sound silly that someone would need to practice what comes naturally to many people, but it's not silly at all. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Your average newspaper is mostly just a collection of reprinted press releases, propaganda pieces from advertisers and recycled newswire articles that the employees of that paper didn't write in the first place. They didn't bother to do any fact checking or even add anything to it. Most newspapers aren't even in the business of gathering news anymore. They don't conduct honest journalism and they don't do investigative stories -- they just reprint what is handed to them or what appeases their advertisers.
Newspapers lie by omission as well. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Just because these people are government employees should not immunize them from criminal prosecution. In fact, I would say that as government employees, they should be held to a higher standard of ethics and protecting the sanctity of human life, because they hold substantial power over that life. And it is precisely this power that they have abused over a period of many years in order to achieve their own selfish aims of power, control and financial profit. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Every product or service that you purchase has a much higher price than it normally would because the providers of those products and services are also paying payroll taxes for their employees, and their employees are paying additional taxes. So, if you add up all of these taxes, the prices on the products and services that you're buying today are actually inflated by the accumulation of all of these hidden taxes. These hidden taxes would disappear under the Fair Tax.
So far, then, with Fair Tax you're taking home a lot more pay. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If you are a mind slave, then you will submit to this ridiculous request for an illegal search, and you’ll return to have Wal-Mart employees rifle through the items you just paid for, trying to figure out which one needs to be zapped by their inventory control system. If you've ever experienced this, they'll say, "Okay, try it now." And you'll get to walk through their security system again, and then look back compliantly at the Wal-Mart employees to find out if they want you to come back and jump through their security hoops one more time. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I think that here in corporate America, we need to stop treating employees as mere resources and machines, and start thinking about them as human beings. We need to really connect with them and find out what they need and what their challenges are outside of their work tasks. Where can they find balance in their lives, and how can we as employers help create environments and impart information that can help these employees improve their lives outside of work?
For those companies that want to experience a real revolution in wellness, drop the business suit dress code. |
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