Addict Nation (46 page)

5 Weight-Control Information Network (WIN) statistics,
http://www.win.niddk.nih.gov
/; and BusinessKnowledgeSource.com,
http://www.businessknowledgesource.com/health/ how_to_reduce_obesity_in_the_workplace_027924.html
.

6 “CDC Downscales Mortality Risk from Obesity, USA,” Medical News Today, April 21, 2005,
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/23210.php
; and Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, February 10, 2005,
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=3&DR_ID=28091
.

7 Rob Stein, “Obesity Passing Smoking as Top Avoidable Cause of Death,”
Washington Post
, March 10, 2004,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A43253-2004Mar9?language=printer
.

8 Bryan Walsh, “Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food,”
Time
, August 21, 2009,
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1917458,00.html
.

9 Ibid.

10 Howard Lyman and Glen Merzer,
MAD COWBOY: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher
Who Won’t Eat Meat
(New York: Scribner, 2001).

11 “Americans Are Obsessed with Fast Food: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal,” interview with Eric Schlosser, CBS Healthwatch, January 18, 2001,
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/31/health/main326858.shtml
.

12 “Q&A with Morgan Spurlock,” SnagFilms, 2009,
http://www.snagfilms.com/films/profile/morgan_spurlock
.

13 “Fast Food Nation,” Wikipedia, 2010,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Food_Nation_(film)
.

14 “Americans Are Obsessed with Fast Food: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal,” interview with Eric Schlosser, CBS Healthwatch, January 18, 2001,
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/31/health/main326858.shtml
.

15 Corky Siemaszko, “Fatty foods may be just as addictive as heroin and cocaine: study,”
New
York Daily News
, May 29, 2010,
http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2010/03/29/2010 -03-29_fatty_foods_may_be_just_as_addictive_as_heroin_and_cocaine_study.html
.

16 “Compulsive Eating Shares Addictive Biochemical Mechanism with Cocaine, Heroin Abuse, Study Shows,”
ScienceDaily
, March 29, 2010,
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100328170243.htm
.

17 “McDonald’s tests a bigger burger, report says,” CNNMoney.com, March 7, 2007,
http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/07/news/companies/mcdonalds_burger/index.htm
; and “Angus Management: McDonald’s Intros New Burger Line,”
BurgerBusiness.com
,
http://www.burgerbusiness.com/?p=1633
.

18 “Americans Are Obsessed with Fast Food: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal,” interview with Eric Schlosser, CBS Healthwatch, January 18, 2001,
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/31/health/main326858.shtml
.

19 T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell II,
The China Study
(Dallas: BenBella Books, 2006),
http://www.thechinastudy.com/about.html
.

20 Jonathan Safran Foer, “The Food Issue: Against Meat,”
New York Times
, October 7, 2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/magazine/11foer-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
.

21 Diane Brady and Christopher Palmeri, “The Pet Economy,”
Bloomberg Businessweek
, August 6, 2007,
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_32/b4045001.htm
.

22 Rebecca Ruiz, “Are You Eating Too Much Meat?”
Forbes
and Associated Press, March 24, 2009,
http://www.forbes.com/2009/03/24/eating-red-meat-lifestyle-health-red-meat-study.html
.

23 Russell Goldman, “KFC to Honor Oprah’s Free Chicken Coupons,” ABCNews.com, May 7, 2009,
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=7527626&page=1
; and Lisa Respers France, “Oprah coupon craze leaves KFC customers hungry for more,”
CNN.com
, May 8, 2009,
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/05/08/oprah.kfc.coupon/index.html
.

24 Neal Barnard, M.D.,
Breaking the Food Seduction
(New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2004), 63. He also cites M. R. Yeomans, P. Wright, H. A. Macleod, and J. A. Critchley, “Effects of nalmefene on feeding in humans,”
Psychopharmacology
(1990): 426–32.

25 Mark Bittman, “Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler,”
New York Times
, January 27, 2008,
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/weekinreview/27bittman.html
.

26 “Rearing cattle produces more greenhouse gases than driving cars, UN report warns,” UN News Centre, November 29, 2006,
www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?newsID=20772&CR1=warning
.

27 Mark Bittman, “Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler,”
New York Times
, January 27, 2008,
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/weekinreview/27bittman.html
.

28 Jennifer Viegas, “Gulf Wildlife ‘Dead Zone’ Keeps Growing,” Discovery.com, May 7, 2010,
http://news.discovery.com/animals/gulf-dead-zone-oil-spill.html?print=true
.

29 Resenberger, B., “Curb on US Waste Urged to Help the Worlds Hungry,”
New York Times,
14 Nov. 1974,
http://www.veganworldnetwork.org/topic_environment_meat_eating.php
; and in the book: John Robbins,
May All Be Fed: A Diet For A New World:
Including recipes by Jia Patton and Friends (Harper Perennial, October 1, 1993), 38.

30 “W. Virginia town shrugs at being fattest city,” Associated Press and MSNBC, November 17, 2008,
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27697364
.

31 Jordan Lite, “Overweight friends will lard it over,”
New York Daily News
, July 26, 2007,
http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/health/2007/07/26/2007-07-26_overweight_friends_will_lard_it_over_you.html
.

32 Barbara Kantrowitz, “Are Fat Friends Bad for Each Other?”
Newsweek
Web Exclusive, August 24, 2009,
http://www.newsweek.com/id/213163
.

33 Judi Hollis,
Fat Is a Family Affair
, 2nd ed. (Center City, MN: Hazelden, 2003), introduction.

Chapter 10: The Scrubbers

1 Jessica Haddad, Eric M. Strauss, and David Muir, “Germs: ‘No Deal’ for Host Howie Mandel,” ABC News, November 24, 2009,
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/howie-mandel-public-obsessive-compulisve-disorder-fear-germs/story?id=9153966
.

2 Ibid.

3 Suellen Hoy,
Chasing Dirt: The American Pursuit of Cleanliness
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 40.

4 “Immigration to the United States,” Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_States
; and Jeanette Altarriba and Roberto R. Heredia,
An
Introduction to Bilingualism: Principles and Processes
(Philadelphia, PA: Psychology Press, 2008), 212.
http://books.google.com/books?id=87snuOaE7DwC&pg=PA212&dq&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false
.

5 Suellen Hoy,
Chasing Dirt: The American Pursuit of Cleanliness
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 88 and 89.

6 Ibid., 145.

7 Katherine Ashenburg,
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
(New York: North Point Press, 2008), 4 and 5.

8 “Imagine a Touchable World,” Purell website,
http://www.purell.com/page.jhtml?id=/purell/include/reasons.inc
.

9 Lyndsey Layton, “FDA Says Studies on Triclosan, Used in Sanitizers and Soaps, Raise Concerns,”
Washington Post
, April 8, 2010,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/07/AR2010040704621.html
.

10 Lisa Wade McCormick, “Report Warns Against Overuse of Household Disinfectants,” ConsumerAffairs.com, November 11, 2009,
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2009/11/disinfectants.html
.

11 Lyndsey Layton, “FDA Says Studies on Triclosan, Used in Sanitizers and Soaps, Raise Concerns,” Washington Post, April 8, 2010,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/07/AR2010040704621.html
.

12 Lisa Wade McCormick, “Report Warns Against Overuse of Household Disinfectants,”
ConsumerAffairs.com
, November 11, 2009,
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2009/11/disinfectants.html
; and Alexandra Scranton,
Disinfectant Overkill: How Too Clean
May Be Hazardous to Our Health
, Women’s Voices for the Earth, November 2009,
http://www.womensvoices.org/our-work/safe-cleaning-products/learn-more/disinfectant-overkill
/.

13 Lyndsey Layton, “FDA Says Studies on Triclosan, Used in Sanitizers and Soaps, Raise Concerns,”
Washington Post
, April 8, 2010,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/07/AR2010040704621.html
.

14 “Endocrine System,” Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_system
.

15 Lyndsey Layton, “FDA Says Studies on Triclosan, Used in Sanitizers and Soaps, Raise Concerns,”
Washington Post
, April 8, 2010,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/07/AR2010040704621.html
.

16 “Antibacterial Cleaners Can Hurt Immune System,” ABC News, July 17 (no year),
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=118140&page=1
; and Stuart B. Levy, “Antibacterial Household Products: Cause for Concern,” presentation from the 2000 Emerging Infectious Diseases Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Posted on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website,
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol7no3_supp/levy.htm
.

17 Mark Schapiro,
Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What’s at Stake for
American Power
(White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2009), 25.

18 Ibid., 27.

19 Carolyn Raffensperger, “Descansos and Chemicals Policy,” Science and Environmental Health Network, June 2008,
http://www.sehn.org/web2printer4.php?img=0&lnk=0&page=Volume_13-3.html
.

20 Randall Fitzgerald,
The Hundred-Year Lie: How to Protect Yourself from the Chemicals that
Are Destroying Your Health
(New York: Plume, 2007), 23.

21 Helena Bottemiller, “FDA Joins Effort to Improve Chemical Screening,” Food Safety News, July 22, 2010,
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2010/07/fda-joins-effort-to-improve-chemical-screening
.

22 “Swimming in Chemicals,” PBS (citing an excerpt from Mark Schapiro,
Exposed: The Toxic
Chemistry of Everyday Products and What’s at Stake for American Power
), March 21, 2008,
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/412/Exposed-Toxic-Chemistry.html
; and Mark Schapiro,
Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What’s at Stake for American Power.

23 “Have you ever counted how many cosmetics or personal care products you use in a day?” Environmental Working Group’s Skin Deep Cosmetic Safety Database,
http://cosmetic database.com/research/whythismatters.php
.

24 Mark Schapiro,
Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What’s at Stake for
American Power
(White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2009), 13.

25 Seth Borenstein, “New studies show Americans have scores of toxins in their bodies,” Knight Ridder, published on Environmental Working Group website, January 31, 2003,
http://www.ewg.org/node/15126
.

26 The National Water Quality Inventory: Report to Congress for the 2002 Reporting Cycle. United States Environmental Protection Agency,
http://www.epa.gov/305b/2002report/factsheet2002305b.pdf
.

27 Tim Gross, “Plummeting Bee Population Troubling,”
Bona Venture
, September 18, 2009,
http://media.www.thebv.org/media/storage/paper1111/news/2009/09/18/Opinion/Plum
meting.Bee.Population.Troubling-3775364.shtml
; and “Saving Bees: What We Know Now,”
New York Times,
September 2, 2009,
http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/02/saving-bees-what-we-know-now
.

Chapter 11: The Mongers

1 Martin Fackler, “At Hiroshima Ceremony, a First for a U.S. Envoy,”
New York Times
, August 6, 2010,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/07/world/asia/07japan.html
; and “Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
.

2 “Status of World Nuclear Forces 2010,” Federation of American Scientists,
http://www.fas.org/programs/ssp/nukes/nuclearweapons/nukestatus.html
; and “Lists of States with Nuclear Weapons,” Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_ with_nuclear_weapons
.

3 Dwight D. Eisenhower, “Military-Industrial Complex Speech,” Public Papers of the Presidents, 1961,
http://www.h-net.org/~hst306/documents/indust.html
.

4 Elisabeth Bumiller, “The War: A Trillion Can Be Cheap,”
New York Times
, July 24, 2010,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/weekinreview/25bumiller.html
.

5 Ibid.

6 “Pentagon’s F-35 Fighter Under Fire in Congress,” PBS NewsHour transcript, April 21, 2010,
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/military/jan-june10/defense_04-21.html?print
.

7 Ibid.

8 “What can $611 billion buy?” Boston.com,
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/gallery/251007war_costs/
.

9 “Help End World Hunger,” Squidoo,
http://www.squidoo.com/world-hunger
.