Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Mike: Well now there's an interesting theme right there -- companies could be giving this to their employees and saving money and saving health care costs all at the same time.
Gerry: That's what we experienced.
Mike: Very interesting. I'd sure be interested to find out what would happen on a larger scale, if a Fortune 500 company were willing to take that as a case study. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Many cities and states are right now facing the very real possibility of bankruptcy due to health care costs (providing benefits to current and former government employees). A large percentage of those costs are spent on monopoly-priced pharmaceuticals. This Dorgan amendment would set city and state governments free to finally engage in fundamental free market price comparisons and save substantial sums of money in sourcing the very same chemical medications for their employees and retirees. |
Dawson Church
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 Today, multinational corporations find ways in which to turn multiculturalism into a benefit, to appreciate the diversity of employees and turn that diversity into a strength. Global companies spend millions of dollars on training and equipping their employees to understand and appreciate differences.
Yet a hundred years before, the corporate giants of the world?think railroad barons, sugar monopolies, the Dutch East India Company, Shell Oil, the Rockefellers and the du Ponts, or Henry Ford's production lines—prized uniformity. |
| The employment market is tight; you know that many of the employees fired today will have to take Draconian pay cuts in menial new jobs.
Even before the current crisis, your body was in fight-or-flight mode as you climbed the corporate ladder. Today, it's on high alert. Your mouth is dry. You're so tense you could put your fist through the wall. You can't wait to get out of the office and have a few beers to unwind. Yet you know that tomorrow you'll be back at your desk?and now you'll have a huge new portion of the work that management has reassigned from the fired employees. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 More and more companies are encouraging their employees to take advantage of in-house gyms or health club memberships, and some health insurance companies reimburse clients for club fees. 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. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Gerry: Absolutely, as a matter of fact, we give out two bottles a month to our employees!
Mike: Great!
Gerry: Cyanotech, after it started up, actually we were founded in 1983, so we've been here over 21 years, but it wasn't until 1989 that we actually started producing tablets and started selling our spirulina through Nutrex. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The report states that health officials in California have experienced "some serious lead poisoning cases among construction employees engaged in the demolition of a firing range, as well as among these employees' children."
Treatment and prevention of lead poisoning
Although there is no cure for lead poisoning, it is treatable and proper care can lengthen a person's life and make their suffering more bearable. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 But some businesses actually care about their employees and are interested in helping their employees find happiness and balance. They are true believers in corporate wellness programs, which is something I strongly support.
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. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| When you consider that employees from industry and government are, over time, intermingled, the likelihood of unbiased evaluation is lessened. Throw in some undisclosed perks for low-paid government employees; stir in some Congressional meddling or arm-twisting for favored lobbyists; add a good measure of risk assessment whereby collateral damage (personal injury or death) can be offset by corporate profitability; flavor with smidges of greed, apathy, and egotism, and voila! The poisonous concoction is complete...and ready to be served to gullible consumers who believe our government cares. |
Jack Challem
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 Companies demanded more productivity and time from their employees in order to remain competitive. In the process, everything in our lives sped up—we segued from telephone calls and regular mail to the routine use of overnight deliveries and faxes, and now to cell phones, e-mails, and instant messages. Service companies routinely promise 24/7 service, and many employees remain in touch with their companies and customers on evenings and weekends. All of this adds stress and takes a toll on our neuronutrients and neurotransmitters. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| But some businesses actually care about their employees and are interested in helping their employees find happiness and balance. They are true believers in corporate wellness programs, which is something I strongly support.
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. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The report states that health officials in California have experienced "some serious lead poisoning cases among construction employees engaged in the demolition of a firing range, as well as among these employees' children."
Treatment and prevention of lead poisoning
Although there is no cure for lead poisoning, it is treatable and proper care can lengthen a person's life and make their suffering more bearable. |
Ann N. Martin
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 The Gainesville Sun in Gainesville, Florida, ran a story in January 2000 on the Alachua County Animal Shelter where the employees actually had to deliver the euthanized animals to the rendering plant. According to the reporter, Paula Rausch, the employees had to "lift them off the truck and heave them into a pit exposing themselves to foul odors, putrid substances underfoot, and having to see the grinding go on."5 These duties were taking their toll on the staff at the shelter. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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 Another Monsanto study involved independent medical examinations of surviving employees by Monsanto physicians. Several hundred former Monsanto employees were too ill to travel to participate in the study. Monsanto refused to use the attending physicians' reports of the illness as part of their study, saying that it would introduce inconsistencies. Thus, any critically ill dioxin-exposed workers with cancer such as non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (associated with dioxin exposures) were conveniently excluded from the Monsanto study.
There are numerous other flaws in the Monsanto health studies. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 Plus, their employees may be able to help you navigate the toxic terrain of household cleaning products. You can also check for the green seal label (www.greenseal.org).
Earth-friendly products include:
Get Clean (available over the Web in concentrated form that might save you money) Seventh Generation Ecover
Greening the Cleaning Sun & Earth Biokleen Mrs. Meyer's Orange Plus
Chapter 18
YOU fretting Stronger people exercise because they want to run faster. Some people exercise because they want to be the league MVP. Some people exercise because they want to make oncoming eyeballs pop. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 Starbucks, one of the most successful companies of the past two decades, recently announced that it is spending more on health care for employees than it spends on coffee beans.
Across the American economic spectrum, employers are trying desperately to rein in health costs, asking workers to pick up more of the tab for their care or, in many cases, dropping insurance coverage entirely. Labor unions are discovering that they cannot negotiate contracts that keep wages apace with inflation because the cost of health care is severely eroding corporate profit margins. |
Bottom Line Health
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| We're looking at the tip of what's happened with the erosion of benefits, as employers and plans start to share the costs with employees. We're going to see more of this," Doty predicts.
RECENT STATISTICS
In 2003, one in five working-age Americans who had chronic health problems—approximately 12.3 million people—lived in families that had problems paying medical bills, according to an analysis by the Washington, DC-based Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC).
For some families, filing for personal bankruptcy may be the only way to escape the debt they've piled up. |
Charles Barber
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 Almost two-thirds of the doctors who frame the formal guidelines of clinical best practice have received funds to conduct research, and more than a third have worked for pharmaceutical companies as employees or as consultants. Seven percent of authors admitted that their relationship with the pharmaceutical industry influenced their writing of guidelines, but 19 percent thought their co-authors were influenced.89
The blame here, in my view, ultimately lies with the doctors and the universities, not the big drug companies. |
David R. Montgomery
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 Within six months of the
Soviet collapse, Cuba began privatizing industrialized state farms; state-run farms were divided among former employees, creating a network of small farms. Government-sponsored farmers' markets brought peasant farmers higher profits by cutting out intetmediaries. Major government programs encouraged organic agriculture and small-scale farming on vacant city lots. Lacking access to fertilizets and pesticides, the food grown in the new small private farms and thousands of tiny urban market gardens became organic not through choice but through necessity. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Six male employees of a Chicago metallurgical laboratory are given water contaminated with plutonium-239 to drink so that researchers can learn how plutonium is absorbed into the digestive tract (Goliszek).
Researchers begin using patients in VA hospitals as test subjects for human medical experiments, cleverly worded as "investigations" or "observations" in medical study reports to avoid negative connotations and bad publicity (Sharav).
The American public finally learns of the biowarfare experiments being done at Fort Detrick from a report released by the War Department (Goliszek). |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 Always at work and anxious employees' health is suffering. The New York Times, Sunday, September 5,2004.
2 Selye HHB. The Stress of Life. New York, NY: McGrawHill, 1956.
3 Selye HHB. Stress without Distress. Philadelphia, PA: JB Lippincott Co., 1974.
4 Anderson RA. Psychoneuroimmunoendocrinology review and commentary. Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients 2004 August/September;253:254.
5 Cheraskin E. How quickly does diet make for change? A study of weight in dental students. J. Ala Dent Assoc 1988;72(3):28-31.
6 Carlson LA. Nicotinic acid: The broad-spectrum lipid drug. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| As part of the study, Professor Kligman applies roughly the amount of dioxin Dow employees are exposed to on the skin 60 prisoners, and is disappointed when the prisoners show no symptoms of Chloracne. In 1980 and 1981, the human guinea pigs used in this study would begin suing Professor Kligman for complications including lupus and psychological damage (Kaye).
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As part of a test codenamed "Big Tom," the Department of Defense sprays Oahu, Hawaii's most heavily populated island, with Bacillus globigii in order to simulate an attack on an island complex. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Firearm instructors, range employees and frequent shooters seem to be the group with the highest levels of lead poisoning. However, the families of those contaminated are also at risk, since lead dust is able to attach to anything that might have been exposed at the firing range -- clothes, shoes, bags, hair, etc. According to "Poisonous Pastime," a New Hampshire police captain warns, "If you take your clothing home, you actually contaminate the family clothing when you wash it together. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 The state even allows employees to take a half hour a day to exercise.
"Healthy America" was adopted by the National Governors Association, which Governor Huckabee and Arizona Governor Janet
Napolitano cochaired. Task force members include Governor Schwarzenegger, Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, and Tennesseee Governor Phil Bredesen.
The Institute for Integrative Nutrition (UN) educates thousands on the power of wholesome, unprocessed foods to improve our health, moods, and lives. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Children's home employees are unaware that they are giving the HIV-infected children experimental drugs, rather than standard AIDS treatments (New York City ACS, Doran).
(1990)
The United States sends 1.7 million members of the armed forces, 22 percent of whom are African-American, to the Persian Gulf for the Gulf War ("Desert Storm"). |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 The constant pressure of employers to cut costs to improve their bottom line has many companies reducing benefits to employees, and for small businesses; it is almost impossible to provide decent employee benefits. According to a 2006 Kaiser Family Foundation study, the average American family pays $11,500 a year in health insurance. Across the country, healthcare insurance rates are going up 10 to 30 percent a year, far outstripping wage increases. It's outrageous. We are all paying more and getting less.
However, there is a model that works. |
Devra Davis
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 A logical avenue of investigation is to obtain as much information as we can about our own employees.
I would appreciate your proceeding with this problem as rapidly as possible, but doing it incidentally to other examinations of our personnel. We do not wish to have this discussed at all, and I request that you maintain this information in confidence. Will you please advise me by January 1, the approximate number of hands that you have seen and of any positive findings.
Sincerely yours,
KHW/js Rex R.Wilson, M.D. cc: Q.R Backmeyer
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Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Over half of the pharmaceutical lobbyists were former elected officials or federal employees.
If you believe this sort of money and influence-peddling in Washington does no harm, you probably also believe that Bill Clinton did not have sex with "that woman."
Dick Armey admitted he was the politician who, at the urging of the White House, inserted a line in proposed Homeland Security legislation to exempt vaccine-makers from tort liability. Eli Lilly wanted protection; politicians attempted to provide it. |
| Throw in some undisclosed perks for low-paid government employees; stir in some Congressional meddling or arm-twisting for favored lobbyists; add a good measure of risk assessment whereby collateral damage (personal injury or death) can be offset by corporate profitability; flavor with smidges of greed, apathy, and egotism, and voila! The poisonous concoction is complete...and ready to be served to gullible consumers who believe our government cares.
Consider the FDA's most recent stand on the abuse of children via pharmaceuticals. |
| This individual does not carry a gun; he does not perform the actual robbery; he does not harm or kill bank employees or customers; he does not even appear on surveillance film. But he knew his compatriots were committing a crime. By allowing the crime to take place and assisting in the escape this "get-away driver" is legally complicit.
The pharmacist might be "just following the doctors' orders" or "just following company policy," but he should have a place among the defendants when a crime against humanity occurs. |
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