Up Close and Personal
An Interview with CTM founder, Phillip Day

ECLUB: So what's new?
PD: Well, there have been some rather surprising developments on many fronts. Where would you like me to begin?
ECLUB: Perhaps with the scurrilous programme that went out on ITV London last Tuesday night. I was so angry I forgot I'd left the dog in the garden.
PD: The documentary attempted a rather poor appraisal of 'cancer cures' in alternative health, but actually ended up doing a hatchet job with no defending nutritional experts. The predatory harpies were all there, including the cancer charities, pontificating on how useless any alternative approach was and how gullible the public could be for falling for such scams. What was interesting was why someone felt the need to air this programme at prime-time, and give it such a bias. At any rate, if you click here, ITV's real agenda is revealed - a dubious Who's Who on who to call if you have cancer.
ECLUB: Let me guess, cancer charities and help groups promoting chemotherapy, radiation and surgery.
PD: Very good, Brian.
ECLUB: And why do you think the programme aired at all?
PD: The cancer orthodoxy senses a shift in public opinion away from them and is attempting to redress the balance. The public is very important to the cancer charities. After all, public money is poured down the charity drain all the time in order to fund drug companies to continue following the wrong course with the maximum of precision.
ECLUB: What have you decided to do about it?
PD: Over the next four EClubs, commencing with this one, I'm doing an in-depth study into the cancer industry and highlighting the serious abuses occurring within it, both medical and ethical. At the same time, we'll examine the solid science behind those nutritional treatments for cancer and their logical and pathological rationales. In this edition, we look at the role of vitamin B17 nitrilosides in human and animal health, why we have cultures alive today who simply do not get cancer. We look at the combined B17 metabolic therapy regimen used by many doctors today which, if used consistently, has the potential to reverse cancers, even in their late stages. We examine the appalling duplicity and deceit of the cancer charities, the hundreds of studies highlighting the deadly dangers of chemotherapy, yadda, yadda, yadda…
ECLUB: You're a bit ticked off about this, aren't you?
PD: I hate bare-faced liars. Especially pots who like to call kettles black. EClub subscribers may wish to give ITV a piece of their mind by e-mailing a few words of polite complaint to resources@itv.com.
ECLUB: What else?
PD: Just to prove there are some good people in the media, Camilla Cavendish has done an excellent article in The Times highlighting the true arguments which condemn the practice of water fluoridation. As if in sympathy, Hawaii rejected calls to fluoridate Honolulu's water supplies this week and the mayor signed the ordinance banning the practice. All congratulations to Bob Briggs and his team for their resounding victory. Folks may want to e-mail him at Rgbriggs2@aol.com to wish him well done. Then there's the guy who decided to eat Happy Meals for 30 days and did himself in… This month, there's something to make you laugh, something to make you cry.
ECLUB: And on the political front?
PD: John Hammell's done an excellent article from America's point of view on the Food Supplements and Herbal Directives. Some shifting sands within the EU. Jacques Delors, the former President of the European Commission, fuelled the controversy over the euro by admitting that Britain was justified in opting out of the single currency because its launch was flawed. Michael Howard, the new Conservative leader, believes he can change the EU's attitude and compel them to forego their federalist designs and just be good trading partners.
ECLUB: You're not convinced.
PD: The Tories were the same party who levered Britain into the EEC and subsequently presided over the signing of the baleful Single European Act. I am deeply suspicious of Conservative politicians. To me they are wet, indecisive and malleable, always compromising with the extremists in their own ranks rather than representing the true wishes of their supporters.
ECLUB: And what are those?
PD: The public wants criminals punished, not medicated. They want judges to judge. They want their police to catch thugs and criminals, not harass and make money out of motorists doing 5 mph over the limit, grimacing at those cameras. They don't want unchecked immigration, they don't want flibberty-gibbet, politically-correct lefties telling them they can't decorate their town centres with hanging flower baskets. They don't want political extremists like Anthony Blair forcing ever more legislation down their throats in the name of fighting the bogus war on terror. They don't want their Council Tax going up 13% to pay for Latvia. They want their Britain back again, with all her concomitant freedoms returned, the same freedoms many of their forebears died in two world wars to protect. They want to trade with Europe, not be ruled by her. They want the rest of the world to look at Britain and see it run by peaceful, fair-minded, politically balanced, mature adults who run their affairs with a firm, non-nonsense compassion; not wide-eyed, politically-correct jobsworths who insist kiddies can ride donkeys on Bognor Beach only if they're wearing motorcycle crash helmets.
ECLUB: So you do have something for us this month then.
PD: Yes, we have our new EU documentary, featuring MEPs, EU commentators, analysts and members of the public. The film is called The Real Face of the European Union, and it runs around 45 minutes. We wanted to produce a film which gave a brief history of the Union and explained the major problems facing Britons once the new EU Constitution is adopted. The programme also shows that Britain can, if she wishes, leave the EU, regain self-rule and independence, and follow Switzerland and Norway's example by signing a free-trade agreement with the nations of the EU, which is what we thought we'd signed up to in the first place. Even EU scions, such as Giscard D'Estaing, say this can be done if the majority of the British public have the political will and make it known. What so alarms me though is that this nation is steeped in apathy. If Blair were to sign us into the EU Constitution and it proved to be a horrible mistake (like the euro is already proving for Germany), there would be no opting out. The results then could be catastrophic. I don't see why Britain has to limit her options when she holds all the cards anyway.
ECLUB: How can people get a copy of the film?
PD: If they live in the UK, they can click the purchase link below and go through to the UK store. If they live anywhere else in the world, they must purchase the film through the Rest of the World store by also clicking below. Also they can use the telephone contact info and call our UK office during normal business hours. Please note we have only produced PAL format videos for now.
ECLUB: Thank you, Phillip.

Further Resources:
Ten Minutes to Midnight by Phillip Day
Vigilance by Ashley Mote
The Real Face of the European Union (PAL video documentary) by Phillip Day

Euro-MPs Voice Their Anger
Over Collapse of Cash Control
by Ambrose Evans Pritchard

The European Commission has overseen an "intolerable" breakdown of EU financial control while subjecting whistleblowers to vindictive treatment, Euro-Mps said yesterday.

The European Parliament's annual report on the £70 billion budget expressed "extreme alarm" over failures in the Commission's accounting system, finding that the books did not add up and large sums of money could not be traced.

The report, drafted by Paulo Casaca, a pro-EU Portuguese socialist, complained that no commissioner had taken the blame for the disappearance of £3million into " black accounts " at the EU's data office, Eurostat.

Pedro Solbes, the economics commissioner in charge of Eurostat, has refused to accept the blame for abuses described by investigators as "a vast enterprise of looting".

The MEP's report orders the commission to pay damages to whistleblowers. Yves Franchet, Eurostat's former chief, continues to draw a £144,000 salary plus perks while key officials linked to the downfall of Jacques Santer's commission after fraud allegations in 1999 kept their posts in the machinery.

By contrast, Paul Van Buitenen was suspended on half pay after he disclosed endemic abuses under Mr Santer, and Marta Andreasen, the commission's chief accountant, was fired when she said the budget was "an open till waiting to be robbed".
The Daily Telegraph, 29th January 2004

Britain Faces Payouts to
EU's £40 Bn Begging Bowl
by David Hughes

Plans for a massive rise in EU spending threaten to plunge Europe into a bitter financial row.

The European Commission, led by Romano Prodi, is ready to defy its biggest member states, including Britain, by demanding a staggering £14 billion increase. It wants the extra cash to pour into poor areas in the ten countries which will join the EU on May 1st. The rise would push up the individual British taxpayer's contribution to the EU to £2.50 a week.

Tony Blair flies to Berlin in ten days for a summit with German chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder and French President, Jacques Chirac to try to halt the spending plans.

Shadow Foreign Secretary, Michael Ancram said last night: "When will the Commission learn that the EU should do less and do it better? If these spending rises go through, Britain will be paying much more and getting little in return."

The confrontation over the new EU budget, which runs from 2007 to 2013, could split the newly-enlarged EU right down the middle. The planned huge spending rise will be set out by the Commission on Tuesday. It is designed to raise and re-focus spending to promote regional development in poor new member states. It will also direct resources into research in a bid to make the EU economy more competitive with the US.

The budget proposal will signal the start of a bloody 18-month battle that will pit rich states against poor ones.

According to sources, a majority of the 20 Commissioners are backing proposals to keep the current ceiling on the EU budget at 1.24 per cent of gross national income - but to spend up to that limit. At the moment, spending is running at under one per cent of national income.

By spending up to the limit, the EU's budget will rise from £75billion this year to £116billion by 2013. The present budget costs the average taxpayer in Britain around £105 a year. The increase being demanded by Brussels would push that up to more than £130 a year. Most of that is spent on the Common Agricultural Policy which costs around £33billion a year and benefits France more than any other country.

Britain, Germany, France, Sweden, Holland and Austria are resisting the budget rise. They want to cap EU spending at one per cent of gross national income. The Commission, however, argues that this is impossible because of the cost of integrating ten poor countries that join in May, plus Romania and Bulgaria which are lined up to join in about five years.

The Commissioners say that given the level of farm subsidies the rise is inevitable. "The political challenges we face are enormous," declares the Commission's draft document. It goes on: "The EU could decline and turn into a heavy bureaucratic organization."

One commissioner said privately: "Politically the Commission could not seek a figure less (than 1.24 per cent)." He noted that the budget ceiling had remained unchanged since 1992 while the EU's areas of action had expanded enormously.

The ten new EU members are Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia.
Daily Mail, 7th February 2004

UK Was Right Not to Join Flawed
Euro, Admits Jacques Delors
by Charles Bremner and Greg Hurst

Jacques Delors, the former President of the European Commission, fuelled the controversy over the euro yesterday by admitting that Britain was justified in opting out of the single currency because its launch was flawed.

In a remarkably frank interview with The Times, the one-time bogeyman of Eurosceptics also predicted that Britain would stay out for years, not least because Gordon Brown was so "passionate about his contempt for Europe".

In another startling admission, the veteran French left-winger said that European Union was in a "state of latent crisis" because of weak leadership. He blamed member state leaders, including President Chirac of France, for putting national interests before the common good.

M Delors, 78, also spoke with unexpected admiration of Baroness Thatcher, his old nemesis. He says that she was a "figure who counts" in British and European history, and the way her Conservative colleagues dumped her was an example of the "atrocious" manner in which male politicians treat female colleagues.

But his most surprising comments were on the euro. He lamented that EU leaders had failed to heed his warning that monetary union must be matched with close co-ordination of economic policies, and argued that the euro was consequently less attractive than it could have been.

"Since we have not succeeded in maximising the economic advantages of the euro, one can understand the British….saying, 'Things are just fine as they are. Staying out of the euro hasn't stopped us prospering'," he said.

Denis McShane, the Minister for Europe, said M Delors' comments, vindicated the Government's "sensible decision….to make economic conditions rather than ideology the central issue as far as the euro is concerned."

But Michael Ancram, the Shadow Foreign Secretary, said: "This is an extraordinary admission by M Delors. If a champion of European integration says that the euro hasn't worked, it shows how right Britain has been to stay out, doubly so if a harmonised economic policy is proposed as the way forward."

M Delors led the Commission for ten years, pushing through both the single market and the 1991 Maastricht treaty on monetary union, and has just published his memoirs. He spoke warmly of Britain, though he called its aversion to Europe "a great mystery of history". But he was sharply critical of his own country. He deplored the opposition in France to the EU's imminent enlargement and President Chirac's attempts to lay down the law to the former Soviet block states because of their pro-American leanings.
Times Online, 20th January 2004

Further Resources:
Ten Minutes to Midnight by Phillip Day
Vigilance by Ashley Mote
The Real Face of the European Union (PAL video documentary) by Phillip Day

The German Elephant and the British Whale

For hundreds of years, The British and Germans regarded each other as natural allies. This was partly because their peoples had a similar outlook, and partly because they had common rivals in France and Russia. Mainly, though, it was because their interests almost never clashed. Britain's outlook was maritime, Germany's, continental. Nineteenth-century diplomats called it "the equilibrium of the elephant and the whale".

Although he does not put it quite that way, Joschka Fischer seems to have reached a similar view. In an interview with his newspaper, the German Foreign Minister says he now accepts that the British will never regard the EU in the way the Germans do. This may seem obvious, but it represents a major shift in German thinking. Until now, successive German leaders have hoped and believed that Britain would end up coming on board with the European project. There are various reasons for this. Some Germans have a romantic belief that Europe is incomplete without the British; others fear the effect that a prosperous, independent Britain might have on their own domestic opinion; still others seem, touchingly, to crave our approval, and interpret our stand-offishness towards Brussels as a snub to them.

In reality, much of the bitterness between Britain and Germany is the result of the two nations being jammed together within the EU. Forcing states with different issues to pursue common policies often leads to resentment on both sides. The equilibrium of the elephant and the whale ended for two reasons: German military adventurism and British determination to be a European as well as a global player. The first is long past: modern Germany is a liberal democracy and a staunch ally. But the second persists. Every Prime Minister since Harold Macmillan has been prepared to sign up to policies which are not in Britain's immediate interest for the sake of influence in Europe. Tony Blair's readiness to accept the EU constitution is no different, in this regard, from John Major's support for the Maastricht Treaty, or Margaret Thatcher's for the Single European Act.

The trouble is that this policy has never been explained to, or endorsed by, the electorate. Voters naturally feel frustrated. And while the proper targets for their frustration are British politicians, they may express it as hostility towards the more integrationist states, above all Germany. This, in turn, creates a backlash in Germany, where Britain is seen as truculent and whingeing. How much better for all concerned if the federalist counties were able to pursue Mr Fischer's vision of European statehood, while the United Kingdom stood to one side as a friend and sponsor. Britain and Germany would cease to be squabbling tenants and become good neighbours. Mr Fischer seems to understand this. If only our own politicians could see it too.
Editorial, The Daily Telegraph, 31st January 2004

Further Resources:
Ten Minutes to Midnight by Phillip Day
Vigilance by Ashley Mote
The Real Face of the European Union (PAL video documentary) by Phillip Day

The Price of Joining the Madhouse
by Phillip Day
- To supporters of Britain in the EU -
Please read the summary below and
see if you are willing to pay it

"There are some in this country who fear that in going into Europe we shall in some way sacrifice independence and sovereignty. These fears, I need hardly say, are completely unjustified." - Edward Heath, televised broadcast, January 1973

* Britain's EU membership between 1972 and 1997 has cost you, the British taxpayer, a breathtaking £235 BILLION. Our yearly gross contribution to the EU is currently about £11 billion, or approximately £1.25 million every hour.

* Most British people have a deep suspicion of the EU, but know next to nothing about how it works, how it affects them now or in the future.

* Polls show that the majority of the British people are fed up with the constant evidence of our country being manipulated and invaded at will by this European 'government of occupation'. A Mori poll indicates that 60% of the British people would vote to leave the European Union if Britain was compelled to give up the pound in order to remain in the EU.

* It is estimated that joining the euro would cost Britain a minimum of a massive £30 BILLION-PLUS and cause immediate price and tax hikes, just as EMU has done on the Continent.

* Joining the euro would entail handing over to Brussels the remainder of the UK's gold and dollar reserves, all rights to our North Sea oil reserves, the power to set interest rates and, ultimately, the power to raise taxes. The British parliament today can do absolutely nothing to stop unelected Euro commissioners making decisions which will damage or threaten to destroy our economy.

* The idea of a British referendum on joining the euro is loosening up the public to the possibility that we can say 'yes' to a single Europe without the citizenry even being aware of what they would be signing away. Of course, no mention is made of the fact that we would not be able to withdraw if economic union proved to be a disaster, as many economists in Britain believe it will be.

* It is by no means certain that the British will be given a chance to vote in a referendum on joining the euro.

* The blizzard of EU directives now exceeds 40,000. The UK must comply with each one of them, however idiotic, which we hopelessly try to do. Ignorance of the law is no excuse. You have been legally and duly notified. Each of these new regulations pushes up the cost of doing business and hampers administration in unproductive record-keeping and other duties.

* For a federalised system of nations to work in Europe, there must be free mobility of labour within the Eurozone, such as one finds in Canada, USA and Australia. In Europe, there is no such mobility of labour, chiefly because of the language restrictions. Many asylum seekers coming into Britain from abroad, for instance, do not speak English, and once in Britain, are disinclined to absorb themselves into British culture. During their applications for asylum, many just disappear into British society and remain undetected, living off state handouts, many under false identities.

* As Britain continues to trade globally, the leashes imposed upon her by Brussels are increasingly starting to chafe. Britain's economy continues to diverge from that of the EU, while converging with that of the USA through our heavy trading of the US dollar. This is the reason why the pound tracks the dollar naturally, but moves away from the euro.

* The European Union's highly regulated business environment is proving disastrous for its own trade and job creation abilities, which have remained stagnant for the past decade. Britain continues to thrive and create jobs using her outward-looking, free-market approach.

* The war option for Britain to free herself from the EU if things don't work out is in fact no option at all, since our military will be integrated with the European Army and mostly controlled by foreign commanders. Armed insurrection would be a civilian's only military option, and this would be dealt with expeditiously by EU commanders, anxious that the rebellion doesn't spread to other disaffected member states. No landing craft would be required this time. Troops and armour could be put through the Channel Tunnel in a matter of hours while Britain slept.

* The EU is drafting measures making it illegal for Britain to desert the EU, if she chooses to do so in the future.

* People who are suspicious of the European Union are described variously by the UK minority pushing it as 'isolationist', 'xenophobic', 'racist' and 'warmongering'. The irony is rich that these slurs are used against ordinary, decent citizens who simply want Britain to remain independent and self-governing.

* No British parliament is legally allowed to pass laws which will bind its successor. This is a cornerstone of British government. Yet successive British politicians have acted knowingly and illegally in 'ratifying' EU laws that have no provision to be repealed by future UK governments.

* Amazingly, the process used by the Council of Ministers to select the EU Commission's president IS UNKNOWN, since proceedings conducted by the Council are never made public. The EU public has no say whatsoever in either the selection or nomination of this person.

* The EU Commission is made up of commissioners submitted by each member state, with a maximum of two per country. At the time of writing, the British commissioners are Neil Kinnock and Chris Patten. It is intended that the selection of these commissioners, which currently resides with each member state, shall in the future be decided by the EU government directly. Which means that future British commissioners need not be British.

* The EU's only leadership is 'rule by regulation'. When British people hear about idiotic new EU laws and regulations slewing onto the books, they are witnessing the traditional, centuries-old continental way of doing things. In other words, the individual in the new Europe has no rights save those specifically granted to him by the state. These can be withdrawn if required.

* The EU's very framework of operation makes it an enemy of the sovereign nation state. Every law enacted serves to undermine a member state's independence, hence the valuable check and balance system of nations keeping others in order is lost. This process of Brussels gaining power and never returning it to the member state is known as the acquis communautaire, or 'ratchet'.

* In spite of the fact that the British government is supposed to be the representative of the British people, citizens have never been asked to agree to the loss of their sovereign nation. Most are horrified to learn how far the whole process has advanced. Many British families lost loved ones during two world wars who died fighting to destroy the dictatorial aspirations of just such a continental power.

* The EU is a potential time bomb for a third European war. If the EU were ever to be dominated by a ruthless élite, the type of laws now on the books would give any heartless government with tyrannical expectations total control to harass and even kill its citizens and seize their property as it saw fit, as the world witnessed with Nazi Germany. Member states no longer wishing to be party to a federal Europe would be unable to free themselves and regain their independence.

* Greenland left the EU and is now an independent nation governing its own affairs. This proves that leaving the EU is still an option prior to Economic and Monetary Union (EMU).

* Switzerland, with all its banks, has resolutely refused to join the EU. So has Norway and Iceland. These nations are doing well and in control of their own affairs, industry, territorial waters (where applicable) and borders today.

* As Britain is a signatory to the five treaties, the EU is legally entitled to dictate the racial mix of those living in the UK to suit its own purposes.

* Full integration with the EU would homogenise the British way of life by pushing forward the EU's program of multiculturalism. Many of the things that make Britain unique will disappear.

* The 1992 Maastricht Treaty abolished British citizenship and enrolled us as citizens of the EU, whether we liked it or not.

* The EU is made up at present of 22 unelected commissioners who call the shots and a quasi-democratic 'parliament' of MEPs who don't. Most MEPs recognise that they are powerless to intervene with Commission decisions, which are usually presented to the parliament as a fait accompli, merely requiring the imprimatur of MEPs to serve the outward appearance of democracy.

* Maastricht has also entitled the EU to lay claim to our North Sea oil reserves, which could amount to half a trillion dollars of future British business.

* The Franco-German axis dominates the European Union. The combined voting powers of these two nations within the EU, coupled with Italy, which invariably votes with France and Germany, gives this bloc the power to tell everyone else in the Community how to run their affairs. Britain is unable to gain the support of other nations with meaningful voting powers, and thus is powerless to exercise what vetoes she has left against legislation which will damage her.

* The German and French political way of doing things has invariably ended in bloodshed and devastation, as history repeatedly demonstrates. The long-suffering German and French peoples are always the first victims of their own politicians.

* None of the politicians running the core mechanisms of the EU, i.e. Commission, the European Central Bank and the European Court of Justice, are elected, nor ever will be.

* In Britain, the state does not exist in its own right, but is granted powers by the electorate. Thus the state serves the people. In the European Union, the state exists in its own right, grants privileges to the citizen (which can be withdrawn) and thus rules the people.

* Under Britain's present parliamentary system, 100% of the MPs in Westminster can be voted in, or equally voted out by the British public. As more power is transferred and Britain's 12 regions come under the direct rule of Brussels, Westminster and its parliamentary system will become redundant.

* In Europe, EU ministers are not answerable to the people for their actions, and, while the parliament technically can be dismissed, the real power lies with the Commission, European Central Bank and the European Court of Justice, which are permanent and unaccountable institutions whose members are unelected.

* In Britain, detailed transcripts are recorded of parliamentary matters and published for all to see (Hansard). In the EU, few of the proceedings are generally recorded or even made available for public scrutiny.

* The purse-strings to the EU economy are held by the European Central Bank (ECB), which is comprised largely of mediocre politicians, not bankers. Records of their meetings and decisions remain secret for 16 years, yet these are the people who are increasingly governing how Britain does business, and will, after monetary integration, be in total control. If you don't like what they do to the British economy in the future, there's nothing you can do about it.

* The EU has no legal checks and balances which govern whether or not its many departments are acting legally. The EU system is autocratic, self-regulating, fundamentally corrupt, undemocratic, and differs little from the 'Soviet' style of rule.

* The British system of government gives the people the chance to say 'no' in a public debate. The EU system of government invites no public debate at all.

* The EU Parliament itself is nothing more than an endorsement forum for the Commission and has very little influence or power. Informed, in-depth discussion on any issues does not exist within the European Parliament. MEPs have little opportunity to examine the enormous amount of legislation that is churned out by the Council and Commission daily.

* The sham of the EU parliamentary voting procedure has appalled many honest MEPs. Resolutions are put up for vote and MEPs cast their votes at unbelievable speed, packing the House to qualify for their allowances. Most have no idea what they are voting on. Many don't care.

* The EU has introduced state powers which are designed to ban political parties of which it disapproves, or which oppose the EU.

* The EU has passed laws against 'racism' and 'xenophobia', which are so arbitrary, they could be applied to any individual, group or party which disapproves of the EU.

* The EU can suspend voting rights to 'punish' any member state not conforming to EU orthodoxy. Meanwhile, the beleaguered member state is still required to pay its EU dues as if it were a full voting member. This is 'taxation without representation', the very reason the American colonies seceded from Britain and went to war for their independence in 1776.

* The EU is setting up its own European Army for the defence of the continent, to which member states will contribute troops, including Britain. This means that British troops can and will be given orders by foreign commanders to carry out tasks, if necessary, against the British people. They will be powerless to disobey.

* The EU represents the victory of the beliefs of a liberal-socialist minority who have traditionally sought to establish 'heaven on earth' through autocratic rule. The EU sees the need to close every loophole, regulate, control, change and conform everything to its own image of the future, regardless of public dissent, which it arrogantly ignores.

* The EU sees removing every risk from life as part of its goal to create 'heaven on earth'. Thus a plethora of directives has been passed to control a citizen's life down to the finest detail.

* The EU believes it is fundamentally right in all the political and financial objectives it imposes upon its populations. If one directive fails to get passed, its supporters will simply come back, time and time again, until it is eventually passed.

* The European Union is proposing to:
· Ban over 300 natural ingredients from free sale;
· Restrict the dosage level of 'approved' nutrients to levels that will render them ineffective;
· Ban herbal remedies for no other reason than that they don't have a 30-year history of use;
· Ban any statements about the effectiveness of nutrients in dealing with disease;
· Give governments the right to re-classify safe and effective natural remedies as medicines - at will.

* The EU's inept Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) has been responsible for destroying the British fishing industry, and giving our fishing rights to others. The effects of its abysmal Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) have spelled death to British farming, while at the same time enriching European farmers, especially the French, for whose benefit the CAP was originally introduced.

* The EU is abolishing trial by jury and the presumption of innocence under the justice system being introduced in Britain. Once the new system is in place, an indicted individual will have his case heard by a professional tribunal and be required to prove his innocence against the combined machinery of the state.

* The ECJ is removing the 'double jeopardy' safeguard. For centuries, British law has held that if a person is found innocent of committing a crime, they cannot be tried again for the same offence. Henceforth, under corpus juris law, the ECJ has granted itself the 'right' to come back at an individual time and again with the same charge, using all its considerable 'legal' apparati, until it secures the required conviction. Jack Straw, the British Home Secretary, has already given prosecutors the right to appeal against a not-guilty verdict.

* Under new legislation, actions pursued by those who disagree with the EU can be labelled seditious, treasonous and even blasphemous.

* A British citizen will henceforth be liable to summary arrest and extradition to a foreign country without any evidence being presented to a court. No prima facie evidence need be presented to a court or the victim to support such charges.

* In the EU's apparent attempt to combat football hooliganism, the potential already exists to arrest a person even on suspicion that they may have committed, or might, in the future, commit a crime.

* Under British law, a law enforcement officer or the public prosecutor must place evidence before a court within 24 hours of a citizen's arrest, detailing the charges being brought against him or her. Under EU law, the police and prosecution have become one entity, and all proceedings may be conducted in secret. These measures have already been endorsed by British politicians.

* Under ECJ law, past offences committed by the accused will be raked up against him and used to justify why he committed the crime for which he is accused. Under British law, this information is only made available to the court after the verdict, in order to secure a fair trial.

* Under Article 8 of the Treaty of Amsterdam, members of the new federal 'Europol' are "immune from legal process of any kind for acts performed… in the exercise of their official functions." Thus, no Europol officer can be charged or brought to trial for false imprisonment, violence against a suspect, the destruction or seizure of private property, or harassment of any individual.

* Europol has been given powers to operate anywhere within the Eurozone, including Britain, with complete impunity. They have the power of summary arrest and extradition, in spite of existing British laws, which specifically prohibit such action. Under the power of international treaty, British law is superseded.

* Ironically, or perhaps not so, Europol's main base of operations is quartered in the old Gestapo headquarters building in The Hague. Eventually Europol will have thousands of armed officers able to operate throughout the Eurozone with complete impunity.

* Europol has been amassing records on hundreds of thousands of European citizens. None of this information is ever made public. Europol has the power, under EU law, to instruct British police authorities to investigate anyone in Britain the EU deems a danger to law and order.

Are you and your family willing to risk
any of this with no hope of recourse?

© Copyright 2003 Phillip Day
Extracted from Ten Minutes to Midnight

Further Resources:
Ten Minutes to Midnight by Phillip Day
Vigilance by Ashley Mote
The Real Face of the European Union (PAL video documentary) by Phillip Day

Cancer: Who Can We Trust?
by Phillip Day

The first in a four-part CTM series on the real cancer war

The programme went out at peak viewing time on ITV London Tuesday night at 7:30pm, the premise all too depressingly familiar. From the TV channel that gave us the moronic 'I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here,' viewers in the south were told gullible people were being conned by alternative cancer treatments with convincing stories attached to them, being relieved of their money and given false hope. And those apricot kernels? Proof that anything within them can heal cancer? What rubbish.

The experts for the prosecution were all there. Predictably, the defence specialists had missed their taxi and never got on the programme. The conclusion of the programme was implicit. People should trust conventional science and stick with tried and tested treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation. We understand people's emotional need to look for alternatives, but please don't be silly. Cancer is a serious business.

No kidding.

In the newspapers the following day, the great news that medicine was winning and that cancer survival rates were up blazed across the pages. Again, no mention was made of the conspicuous failures, such as Bob Monkhouse, Allan Bates and Dinsdale Landen, all of whom lost their lives to cancer in one week, in spite of the brightest and best wandering the corridors of our medical institutions with supposedly unlimited budgets. Not surprisingly, the cancer charities were being quoted from pillar to post, the message we've all come to expect: We're winning the war on cancer, just give us another £170 million.

In the years I have studied the cancer industry, a crusade incidentally which began after witnessing my family's fair share of unnecessary deaths from cancer, chemotherapy and radiation, I have been struck with the weapons of mass distraction this most ruthless and dangerous of industries has relentlessly deployed against the public. During the course of my research into the real cancer war, I discovered there were questions you ask, and questions the 'experts' most definitely wanted to avoid. Around the world, I would speak on TV and radio shows about the safe, natural and medically proven alternatives to being plastered with radiation (who doesn't know that radiation causes cancer?) and chemotherapy (some of which, like Alkeran, are ex-chemical warfare agents), yet these questions were studiously blustered over and never answered by the experts wheeled along to counter me. To the cost of thousands of lives around the world today, they are still not being answered.

• Why are hundreds of thousands of cancer patients feeling the need to look for cancer treatment alternatives at all? Is it because they've seen what traditional treatments can do to a person, that they do not work for the majority of the cancers, that they sense there must be an easier way?
  
• Find out why the cancer industry and their charities employ the five-year survival rule to falsify their success rates. How you can die in your sixth year of cancer and still be cured.
  
• Why do we have at least eighteen peoples on the Earth today without a medical degree to punt between the lot of them, who still do not get cancer and have no trace of the disease in their culture? Read of Albert Schweitzer, Sir Robert McCarrison, Dr Weston Price, Dr Francisco Contreras, etc. etc. and the real reason these men's work is an embarrassment to medical science.
  
• If the human body becomes what it absorbs, why don't they train our doctors in nutrition?
  
• If the tumour is the cancer and therefore the oncologist's target (chemo, radio and surgery all target the tumour), why doesn't removing or destroying the tumour always cure the cancer?
  
• Is the advice we receive from cancer charities impartial, or tainted with the chemical breath of the drug industry?
  
• Where is the logic in pouring cancerous doses of radiation into cancer patients to cure cancer?
  
• Why are almost all chemotherapy drugs themselves carcinogens?
  
• Why, in spite of the billions that have been poured into cancer, does Britain have one of the worst cancer survival rates of any western, industrialised nation?
  
• Why do thousands continue to overcome their cancer using nutrition, and yet nothing is ever mentioned in the media, including the medical studies that showed how they did it?
  
• Are these people, and the doctors who treat them, all wrong? Perhaps they never had cancer in the first place.
  
• Why are people who seek alternative treatments for cancer suddenly 'gullible, sad individuals' who cannot make up their own minds and are having the wool pulled over their eyes?
  
• Why are cancer clinics around the world, which use simple, nutritional treatments for cancer, being shut down and vilified by pharmaceutically sponsored initiatives?
  
• Cancer -Who can we really trust?

These and many more questions will be answered in the Campaign for Truth in Medicine's three-part special on Cancer: Who Can We Trust? commencing this EClub bulletin.

• Find out about the hundreds of studies we will quote showing the horrendous dangers of chemotherapy the cancer charities would rather you did not know about.
  
• Find out about the treatments that harm, and the treatments that heal.
  
• Discover the true science and the studies behind cancer, those pesky apricot kernels and Vitamin B17, and how a balanced, nutritional approach to the disease is reaping enormous benefits.
  
• Learn about the true deceit of cancer charities, why there are hundreds of these predatory organisations, even in your High Street, raising cash for more chemical research that will never work, or worse, kill many thousands more.
  
• Find out about the study which showed the majority of oncologists polled would not themselves take their own treatments if they developed cancer.

There is an old proverb: Fools ask questions wise men cannot answer. For those aiding and abetting the unnecessary slaughter by refusing to tell the truth and bring much needed relief to the people they purport to represent, there's another proverb: He who sups with the Devil should have a long spoon.

In the meantime, 'fools' keep disobeying their medical masters with nutritional treatments for cancer, and those pesky testimonials keep coming in. Many in hospital now find themselves considering an alternative programme: 'I'm a Human Being. Get Me Out of Here.' Well done, Bridget.

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Cancer
by Phillip Day

Profile
Cancer, the second leading killer in most western industrialised nations, is a disease which has crept from an incidence rate of around 1 in 500 in 1900 to between 1 in 2 to 3 today. Over 625,000 people are expected to die from cancer in America in 2003, and yet, in spite of supposedly the brightest and the best walking the corridors of our leading cancer research institutions, armed with the latest technology and limitless budgets, the incidence rates for cancer continue to rise.

Breast cancer serves as a poignant yardstick. This type of malignancy is now the leading cause of death in women between the ages of 35 and 54. In 1971, a woman's lifetime risk of contracting breast cancer was 1 in 14. Today it is 1 in 8. Rachel's Environment and Health Weekly, No. 571 reports:

"More American women have died of breast cancer in the past two decades than all the Americans killed in World War 1, World War 2, the Korean War and Vietnam War combined."

Perhaps the most amazing thing is, most physicians in the world today have absolutely no idea what cancer is, or even how it is contracted. Some believe cancer is age-related. Others believe the cause is parasites. Others yet examine the environmental causal link.

Definition
Cancer can be described as a healing process that has not terminated upon completion of its task. Damage occurs to the body via a number of modalities (e.g. physical blows, viruses, bacteria/fungal/yeast proliferation, radiation, toxins, hormonal imbalances, etc.), and the body attempts to heal the damage. If the healing process replicates damaged cells and does not terminate properly due to malnutrition and certain other causations, the end result will be an ongoing proliferation of mutated healing trophoblastic material - a tumour.

The current of injury
Dr Arthur Guyton's Textbook of Medical Physiology talks about the healing process in the context of what happens after a heart attack. He writes:

"Many different cardiac abnormalities, especially those that damage the heart muscle itself, often cause part of the heart to remain partially or totally depolarised all the time. When this occurs, current flows between the pathologically depolarised and the normally polarised areas. This is called the current of injury. Note especially that the injured part of the heart is negative, because it is the part that is depolarised while the remainder is positive."

Canadian cancer researcher Ron Gdanski comments also on the current of injury: "…A current of injury is used to polarise the depolarised tissue. The injured part is negative. The current of injury flows from the healthy or 'polarised' to the injured or negative or depolarised area. The current of injury is actually an increased region of measurable ionic activity that exists over the injury, but does not flow elsewhere. The current of injury stays on until the injury is repaired."

The current of injury has been studied extensively and has been manipulated to grow tissue, as Dr Robert Becker describes in his The Body Electric. At the heart of Gdanski's research is the revelation that "…injury disrupts the ionic field of cell-wall membranes, turns on the current of injury, and repair of injury turns it off unless an infection [or ongoing damage to the body] disrupts the healing process."

Years before, Professor John Beard and US biochemist Ernst T Krebs Jr. wrote about how this healing process organises the regeneration of ordered tissue in the same way that cells replicate as a child grows. They discovered the role embryonic stem cells play in the formation of trophoblastic cells which are employed by the body in pregnancy. But it is in their additional role as 'healers' that the importance and potential cancer hazards of stem cells become known. These fibroblasts or neoblasts, as they are known, are primarily employed to repair trauma sites. These cells can transform themselves into any body-part: bone material, blood, tissue or hair depending on the particular morphogenetic stimulus they receive.

When our bodies are damaged in any way, estrogen stimulates the production of these cells for healing the troubled area in the same way they form trophoblast for pregnancy. Usually the cessation of the current of injury terminates this healing process once it is complete. Pancreatic enzymes assist in the stripping down of the protective, cellular coating of healing cells, allowing the immune system, together with other nutrients, such as vitamin B17, to kill the cells. In the event that this process does not terminate satisfactorily, cancer tumours are the result of the ongoing 'rogue' healing process. Notice that the location of resultant cancer or trophoblastic mass is specific to the original area of damage. This too becomes important as we proceed.

For many years, cancer tumours were viewed by specialists as being 'foreign' to the body. In fact, the opposite can be said to be true, according to Beard and Krebs. They were curious as to why cancer existed at all if the immune system was there to repel any foreign invasion. They concluded that the immune system must not be viewing cancer as a foreign threat if the cancer commenced its existence as a healing process natural and familiar to the body.

So here we have three parts to the picture that have to be in place for cancer to initiate:

• Cancer commences with an injury, howsoever caused
  
• Cancer is the result of normal cellular healing processes that continue in a rogue process due to the fact that the cells being replicated are damaged and do not knit together properly. Thus the repaired tissue is not polarised and so the current of injury does not 'switch off'
  
• Due to our diets, which generally contain processed foods, cooked to destruction, lacking essential vitamins, minerals, enzymes and other nutritional co-factors, our immune system is depressed and ineffectual at halting this cellular rogue healing

How parasites cause cancer
Aside from toxins, malnutrition and other more obvious causes for cancer, one key area that is bound up with the cancer enigma is that of parasites.

An impressive body of scientific literature has built steadily over the years demonstrating the damage fungi and yeasts, such as Candida albicans, can wreak in the body. If we return to examine Professor John Beard's assertion that cancer is a healing process that has not terminated upon completion of its task, then the case against rogue critters in the body is hugely compelling.

Ron Gdanski tells us: "Cancers initiate in membrane walls of storage vessels and ducts, such as the lungs, colon, breast, prostate, etc. due to injury. If cells that multiply to repair the injury are infected with bacteria or fungi, the microbes within the cell produce cell-wall proteins and enzymes that mutate the new cell walls. These mutated cells are rejected like a skin graft that does not take. For each normal cell that multiplies, we end up with two cancer cells and one less normal cell. That's how cancer consumes tissue.

Cancer is the continuous multiplication, microbial mutation, and bodily rejection of cells produced normally by the body to repair an injury."

Gdanski is a passionate and extremely articulate advocate of the school of thought that implicates the rabid consumption of sugars and refined, high-glycaemic carbohydrate foods that unbalance the crucial internal environment of our bodies causing usually beneficial microbes, such as Candida, to begin their monstrous breakouts. All of my research corroborates the startling assertion that processed sugar and high-glycaemic foods that break down into glucose in the body are one of the primary causes. How they do this is another astonishing fact in itself.

Yeasts like Candida are single-cell fungi which multiply prolifically when fed organically bound carbon, one essential element that characterises all dead and living matter. Fungi and yeasts are like the hyenas of the veld. They are scavengers. Abundant carbon compounds like sugars are their favourite. The more sugary foods we eat, the more these life-forms feast within us. The symptoms vary from the embarrassing to the annoying to the downright fatal:

Symptoms of parasitic infection
Poor immune function, lack of sex drive, candidiasis, toe-nail fungus, chronic bloating and gas, rectal itching, mouth sores (white patches on the tongue or inside the cheeks), tingling, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), numbness or burning sensations, chronic fatigue (ME), allergies, food sensitivities, chemical sensitivities, thrush, chronic vaginal yeast infections and discharges (usually thick, white), rashes and itching around male genitalia, bladder infections, intestinal cramps, cravings for sugar-rich foods and sweets, cravings for foods rich in yeast and carbohydrates.

The connection between
parasites and cancer
Yeasts are well known to ferment sugar into alcohol in the absence of oxygen. Breweries depend on it! If we fail to exercise or eat oxygen-rich, organic fruits and vegetables, we are inviting the dangerous and unwelcome proliferation of parasites like Candida by providing them with an oxygen-poor, fermentation-rich breeding ground in which to thrive. The Columbia Encyclopaedia states:

"Their bodies [fungi] consist of slender, cottony filaments called hyphae; a mass of hyphae is called a mycelium. The mycelium carries on all the processes necessary for the life of the organism, including in most species, that of sexual reproduction."

Candida and other trouble-makers have a powerful ability to hurt our bodies, their thread-like mycelia (roots) penetrating and invading the walls of human cells to take root and feed. They discharge their mycotoxin waste products into the cells they infect, which in turn switches on the current of injury that characterises the healing process. If this multiplication of infected cells proceeds in the right oxygen-poor environment, we get rejected, mutated cells which do not knit together correctly, which in turn means the current of injury does not shut down satisfactorily. These rogue (cancer) cells have wall membranes which contain chitin, a protein found abundantly in the skins of fungi, such as mushrooms. This on-going rogue healing process is of course fuelled by the sugary diet of the patient which, in a continuing acidic, anaerobic environment, produces alcohol waste products through fermentation, which in turn fuels the cancer fermentation process further.

Here we have the dynamic connection between parasites/ yeasts/fungi and cancer. Blood clots, stagnant lymph fluids, injuries that won't heal and benign tumours are all prime spots where blood sugars collect and become trapped to provide fodder for opportunistic critters. As they thrive and multiply, fuelled by sugary diets, they damage a whole spread of cells by penetrating their cells walls with their root-like mycelia, depositing their mycotoxins. This in turn triggers the current of injury and the multiplication of stem cells, which replicate these infected cells into tumours, and so on. Notice that because the rogue cells are rejected by the body, the current of injury doesn't switch off because the healing isn't complete, since the new cells are not properly polarised. The result is an on-going proliferation of these cancerous cells.

As these fungi and yeasts thrive, along with the tumours they provoke, they secrete enzymes of their own to depress the immune system of the host and rob surrounding cells of their oxygen, thus expanding the ideal fermentation environment, enabling them to invade and corrupt more cells. Gdanski and others confirm that a single cell mutation alone won't trigger cancer: "A colony of fermenting cells must be formed before a tumour can develop. A quantity of trapped blood in a storage vessel or duct feeds fungi and bacteria, and provides the initial toxins that alter the environment and metabolism of adjacent cells allowing cancer to start."

Gdanski further believes that cancer orthodoxy's dogged assertions that defective genes are the cause of cancer are woefully wide of the mark, since they fail to explain:

• Why the natural process for repair of damaged skin, or the natural growth process itself, starts replication that ends up as cancer
  
• Why the essential difference between normal cells and cancer cells is how well or poorly they knit together to form new membranes
  
• Why we do not have cancer of the heart or arteries
  
• Why up to 96% of cancers occur in cells adjacent to storage vessels and ducts, such as lung, breast, colon and prostate
  
• Why cancer tumours develop in fast-growing youngsters
  
• How spontaneous remissions often occur with a change in lifestyle
  
• Why tumour membrane tissue (chitin) resembles the material that forms the outer membrane of mushrooms (a fungus)

The scientific literature is tantalisingly replete with information on the sugar-yeast-cancer connection. In my book Health Wars, we have an entire chapter dedicated to the dozens of serious health problems excess sugars cause in the body, all studied and annotated by medical science. Interestingly, the few drugs that have worked well with cancer all have one key fact in common: they are anti-fungals and anti-mycotoxic. Nobel laureate Otto Warburg's assertion that cancer only thrives in an environment that has had at least a 35% oxygen reduction also corroborates the precise environment parasites require to thrive. Provocative also is the fact that ALL cancer patients have a parasite problem.

B17 metabolic therapy
The most effective anti-cancer strategy
During the past sixty years, doctors around the world have worked tirelessly, and often under tremendous intimidation from their own medical establishment, to build a nutritional arsenal both to prevent and cure cancer. During my years of research into the disease, I have seen various forms of the following regimen applied by the most successful cancer physicians. The conviction underpinning vitamin B17 metabolic therapy states that:

• Conventional drug and radiation treatments are not only NOT extending life in the major, epithelial cancers, they often kill the patient after wrecking the immune system
  
• First, the doctor must stop the damage being done to the patient, which has resulted in the cancer (smoking, chemicals, sugar-rich foods, drugs, chemo, etc.)
  
• Second, the bowel system and associated organs must be cleansed in order to expel toxins and debris efficiently. The patient must be fed a special high-fibre, raw diet, along with certain herbs, aimed at killing yeast, fungi and harmful bacteria, while promoting probiotics (friendlies). This diet must also alkalise the patient's internal environment, thus rendering it hostile to fermentation processes upon which cancer depends to thrive
  
• Third, the patient is simultaneously fed superfoods and supplements that promote high enzyme activity in the body to chew off the protein coating of trophoblastic (cancer) cells
  
• Fourth, key nutrients are introduced into the body, such as vitamins B17, C complex and A-emulsion which have a known and proven anti-tumoural, anti-fungal, anti-mycotoxic effect.

Vitamin B17 - nature's miracle food
One of the most studied nutrients of recent times, vitamin B17 is covered extensively in my book, Cancer: Why We're Still Dying to Know the Truth as well as The B17 Metabolic Therapy handbook. This nutrient is contained in foods known as nitrilosides, variously comprising the seeds of the common fruits (excluding European citrus), pasture foods, and many vegetables and pulses. However, it is within the seeds of the humble apricot that the highest concentrations of this nutrient have thus far been found, bound together with enzymes and minerals in their whole-food forms.

Apricot kernels are a favourite of a number of agrarian peoples, such as the Hunzas, Abkhasians and Karakorum, who have no record of cancer in their isolated state. Other peoples around the world consume different sources of vitamin B17 and have similar records of success. According to scientists who have studied and published on the nutrient, B17 must work in conjunction with enzymes, vitamins C, A & E to achieve a targeted anti-cancer mission in the body. It cannot, and does not work alone.

Vitamin B17 is a stable, chemically inert and non-toxic molecule when taken as food or as a refined pharmaceutical in appropriate quantities (Laetrile/amygdalin). However scientists discovered the compound reacts to the enzyme beta-glucosidase, located in huge quantities at the site of cancerous tumours, but not to any degree anywhere else in the body. In this reaction, beta-glucosidase manufactures two potent poisons at the cancer cell site: hydrogen cyanide and benzaldehyde (an analgesic/painkiller), stabilised with two molecules of glucose. These two poisons, produced in minute quantities at the cancer cell site, combine synergistically to produce a super-poison many times more deadly than either substance in isolation. The cancer cell meets its chemical death at the hands of vitamin B17's selective toxicity.

Scientists studying B17 were aware that indigenous peoples consuming large quantities of nitrilosidic foods were not experiencing any harmful side-effects from this reaction. On the contrary, their lives were characterised by abundant good health and great longevity. Later they found that healthy tissue broke down excess levels of B17 into two nutritious by-products, one of which, sodium thiocyanate, reacts with the precursor hydroxycobalamin in the liver to form the other well known nutrient with the cyanide radical: vitamin B12 (cyanocobalamin).

Take action
So let's put it all together and see what we have. Now follows a more expanded bullet-point breakdown of what B17 metabolic therapy is, and the various components doctors use to achieve specific goals within your body.

Preventing cancer
1. DIET: COMMENCE THE FOOD FOR THOUGHT DIETARY REGIMEN
2. DIET: Ensure the majority of your food is whole, organic, high fibre and eaten raw. Remove grains where possible from the diet
3. DIET: Small meals, consumed often
4. DIET: Reduce meat and eliminate dairy intake
5. DIET: Cut out ingestion of sucrose and refined, high-glycaemic carbohydrate foods
6. DIET: Drink 4 pints/2 litres of clean, fresh water each day
7. DIET: Balance any hormonal irregularities - cut out unfermented soy products (soy milk, soy 'meats', etc.)
8. DETOXIFICATION: Remove all toxins and damage triggers from your environment and lifestyle (harmful personal and household products, chemicals, smoking, drugs, SUGAR)
9. DETOXIFICATION: Detoxify your body and kill fungi, yeasts and parasites
10. RESTORING NUTRIENT BALANCE: COMMENCE THE BASIC SUPPLEMENT PROGRAM
11. RESTORING NUTRIENT BALANCE: Nutritional supplementation, including minerals, vitamins, including C complex, B-groups, including B17 (usually taken as apricot kernels), essential fats (the correct omega 3:6 ratio)
12. PREVENTION: Avoid, where possible, drugs, radiation scans and intrusive 'diagnostic' testing
13. PREVENTION: Regular exercise and rest
14. PREVENTION: Be happy and stress-free

Combating cancer - B17 metabolic therapy
1. SUPERVISION: Seek a qualified health practitioner who uses the nutritional approach to cancer
2. DIET: COMMENCE THE ANTI-CANDIDA DIETARY REGIMEN and alkalise your body's internal environment. Cancer thrives on an anaerobic environment which lacks oxygen and becomes a haven for fermentation and the proliferation of bacteria, fungi and yeasts. Alkali solutions prevent these problems because they attract large amounts of oxygen
3. DIET: The main part of your diet will be fresh, organic vegetables, pulses, legumes, nuts and seeds eaten raw. A little broiled fish is OK
4. DIET: Small meals, consumed five to six times a day to even out blood sugar
5. DIET: Drink at least four pints of clean, still mineral water each day (not out of plastic bottles and avoid distilled water). Avoid all alcoholic drinks, including beer (which contains sugar, yeast, grains and alcohol)
6. DETOXIFICATION: Eliminate ALL processed foods, meats, dairy products, sugar, grains, etc. These are often contaminated with chemicals and fungi
7. DETOXIFICATION: Absolutely cut out sucrose, aspartame, saccharin and high-glycaemic carbohydrate foods (foods that break down rapidly into glucose, such as bread, pastas, potatoes, rice, bakery products). Also cut out high-glycaemic fruits such as grapes, raspberries, strawberries, mangoes, etc. Apples and pears in moderation (including their seeds) are OK
8. DETOXIFICATION: Remove all toxic personal care and household products and damage triggers from your environment and lifestyle. Don't smoke and avoid second-hand smoke
9. DETOXIFICATION: Conduct a two-week bowel cleanse with magnesium oxide. Cancer patients should also consider colon hydrotherapy afterwards for extra internal cleanliness
10. ANTI-PARASITE: Take fresh sticks of cinnamon (not the processed supermarket dust), and grind them down in a coffee grinder. Take a teaspoon of this ground cinnamon powder, mixed in a glass of warm water, two/three times a day
11. ANTI-PARASITE: Take wormwood capsules, one four times a day
12. ANTI-PARASITE: Enteric-coated capsules of the following oils are all effective antifungals: oregano, thyme, peppermint, rosemary, garlic
13. ANTI-PARASITE: Colloidal silver, as directed
14. ANTI-PARASITE: Brew Essiac tea properly (see A Guide to Nutritional Supplements) and drink 2oz or more of it 4 times a day
15. ANTI-PARASITE: Take a parasite purge formula (this should contain items such as black walnut, clove, ginger root, anise seed, pau d'arco, peppermint and fennel)
16. ANTI-PARASITE: L-arginine (as directed) to assist in the removal of ammonia waste products
17. ANTI-PARASITE: Take 3-5 grams of water soluble fibre such as psyllium husks or guar gum to help flush out the bowel as the killing proceeds apace. THE ANTI-CANDIDA DIETARY REGIMEN will also provide you with haystacks full of bowel-scraping fibre to help broom your innards clean
18. ANTI-CANCER: Take an enzyme supplement away from food. This should contain, but not be limited to, bromelain (from pineapples), papain (papayas), thymus, trypsin, chymotrypsin, lipase, amylase, etc.
19. ANTI-CANCER: Apricot kernels, 7 g per day, spread throughout the day, for the first few days, increasing as directed to a maximum of 28 g per day (ideal for a 200 lb male). Those with lower bodyweights, (including children and pets), should reduce intakes accordingly (see A Guide to Nutritional Supplements)
20. ANTI-CANCER: 5-10 g vitamin C complex (ascorbates plus bioflavonoids) per day. 5 grams amounts to approximately one heaped teaspoon of C complex powder. Take one teaspoon in a bland juice, such as pear, every morning and another at night
21. COMMENCE THE BASIC SUPPLEMENT PROGRAM, ensuring:
22. Selenium, 200 mcg per day
23. A priobiotic supplement to install beneficial flora
24. BOOSTING IMMUNITY: Astragalus and echinacea for the immune system, as directed
25. PREVENTION: Balance any hormonal irregularities with natural progesterone cream - cut out unfermented soy products (soy 'milk', soy 'meat', etc.)
26. PREVENTION: Indulge in regular and vigorous exercise (unless health problems prevent this) to exercise and pump the lymphatic system, rid the body of waste products and draw oxygen into the body
27. PREVENTION: Avoid behavioural and lifestyle problems that promote stress
28. PREVENTION: Get plenty of regular rest
29. PREVENTION: Avoid radiation scans and intrusive 'diagnostic' testing
30. PREVENTION: The patient may consider absolutely avoiding conventional radiation, chemotherapy and other toxic treatments unless life-threatening tumours require shrinking in a hurry
31. TIP: Consider surgery only if tumours are life-threatening
32. TIP: Find out as much as you can about cancer. Confront it, don't hide from it
33. TIP: Use spiritual contemplation and prayer to focus your mind into taking action consistently
34. TIP: Never give up, no matter how badly off you think you are. Go for it, one day at a time. Remember, "The secret of a long life is to keep breathing."

Herxheimer's reaction
During the detoxification and parasite-killing process, the body may become clogged with catabolic debris, swords, shields, ammunition, dead beasties and their resultant mycotoxins, including ammonia. You may feel ill as your symptoms apparently worsen. This is known as Herxheimer's reaction, after the venerable German dermatologist of the same name. It is temporary and will be experienced in proportion to the vehemence with which you apply your attack strategies. Symptoms may be alleviated by commencing the anti-Candida diet a full two weeks prior to starting on the anti-fungal/yeast supplements.

Maintenance - The open road ahead
Once clear of cancer, avoid the minefields to prevent re-occurrence of illness. THIS IS VITAL. No going back to your wicked old ways. Remember: what you eat determines the condition of your body's immune system, and poor immunity is written on the gravestone of many a promising lad and lass. Solving malnutrition, dehydration and fungal/parasite problems in the body can lead to tremendous health benefits, not to mention burying many of the other vexing diseases which are afflicting us.
© Copyright 2003 Phillip Day
Extracted from The ABC's of Disease

Further resources:
The ABC's of Disease by Phillip Day
Cancer: Why We're Still Dying to Know the Truth… by Phillip Day
Health Wars by Phillip Day
Great News on Cancer in the 21st Century… by Steven Ransom
B17 Metabolic Therapy compiled by Phillip Day

The Cancer Charities
by Steven Ransom
"All right, so I like spending money! But
name one other extravagance!" Max Kaufmann

Martin Walker is the author of a book entitled Dirty Medicine. Walker argues that such is the level of vested interests involved in cancer charity infrastructure, that cancer research charities are part of the problem, not the solution. Writing in the Ecologist, Walker reveals some unacceptable business ties and practices behind the 'acceptable face' of UK cancer charity interests.

"There are over 600 cancer charities in the UK, but the three big players - the heart of the cancer establishment - are the ICRF (Imperial Cancer Research Fund) the CRC (Cancer Research Campaign) and ICR (Institute of Cancer Research). They determine the public perception of what cancer is and what can be done about it.

Yet all are essentially unaccountable, steeped in conservatism and privilege, which class and power have bestowed upon the top echelons of the British medical profession. The power of these charities is demonstrated by how effectively they control public access to the facts about cancer. There is no independent public review of the work of the cancer charities, which allows them to present their own version of events - and they do.

Both the CRC and the ICRF hold substantial reserves - in the mid 1990's, the ICRF's tied assets stood at £90M - most of which are invested in industry. Even as late as the mid-90's, it was revealed that the ICRF was 'inadvertently' investing in the tobacco industry. The investment portfolio of the cancer charities is not publicly accessible and consequently it is not possible for supporters to ensure that investments have been made only in companies which are not implicit in the production of carcinogens."

Walker suggests that a good way to start rectifying conflicts of interests within the cancer charities would be to call for an immediate program of research into industrial carcinogens. He suggests that anybody who has anything to do with cancer research should be vetted for any links to carcinogen-producing companies and pharmaceutical and/or biotech industries. Walker also stipulates that cancer research scientists should spend a major part of their time researching non-chemical, non-genetic treatments and examining the environmental causes of cancer.

But this is not happening. Continues Walker:

"Apart from the continual propaganda about cigarettes, there is no public discourse about the chemical or environmental causes of cancer. And it is unlikely that the public will ever be informed about them while cancer research in Britain is dominated by a cabal of unaccountable doctors, scientists and surgeons - a 'cancer club' which garners some of its funding and much of its philosophy from an industrial infrastructure which independent scientists believe is itself a cause of rising cancer rates."

A cabal? What is the level of vested interests in the average 'philanthropic' drug company? And what ties are there to the various charities? Readers will find the following information very interesting.

The board at GSK
Leading cancer drug manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline states that its global mission is to improve the quality of human life. Externally however, its board members hold senior positions with corporations that do not have mankind's best interests at heart, including directorships of alcohol, tobacco and chemical-pollutant conglomerates and various companies promoting high sugar and fat diets - all, to some degree or another, linked to human carcinogens.

At the time of writing, GSK's chairman (until 20th May 2002), Richard Sykes, is a director of Rio Tinto, a mining company with an appalling human rights record, continually exposing its workers to toxic fumes, lead, arsenic and radioactive materials, leading to cancers and other serious illness. GSK deputy chairman, Roger Hurn, along with fellow directors Ian Prosser and John Young, hold key positions at chief pollutants ICI, BP Amoco and Chevron respectively. Another GSK director, Donald McHenry, resides on the board at Coca-Cola and Paul Allaire serves on the board of 'artery-sludge' giant Sara Lee. Coca-Cola is currently facing a lawsuit over its products' alleged ability to trigger type-2 diabetes, while Sara Lee features in Multi-National Monitor's "Top 10 Worst Corporations of 2001".

Recently retired from the GSK board is Derek Bonham, a director at Imperial Tobacco. GSK made over £470M in 2001 from various 'stop smoking' aids. Their new product, Zyban, has recently been approved by NICE, despite it being linked to multiple deaths and injuries. Fellow GSK board member Christopher Hogg, the soon-to-be appointed Chairman of GSK, was, until only recently, a director of alcohol giant Allied Domecq. His colleague at GSK is the aforementioned Ian Prosser, who is also chairman of Bass Breweries. Maybe these two gentlemen are perfectly positioned to advise GSK on how best to pitch Zofran, GSK's wonder drug to 'cure' alcoholism?

GSK is also 'blessed' with the expertise of arms dealer Dr Jean Pierre Garnier, who sits on the board at United Technologies. Most breathtaking of all perhaps is the fact that former executive director at GSK, Jeremy Strachan, has recently been appointed Secretary of the British Medical Association.

This is a fairly representational snapshot of those who hold sway over conventional healthcare today. Another example would be the UK's premier cancer charity, Cancer Research UK, which states on their website under 'Corporate Partnerships':

"Our team has experience in developing high profile, commercially beneficial campaigns to suit the needs of our corporate partners, such as Duerr's, GlaxoSmithKline, Schroders and Tesco."

The cancer club
The very people responsible for directing human health decisions with regard to cancer have key financial interests in tobacco, sugar, alcohol and pollution-causing industries - many of these products in themselves carcinogenic. These same people also have close ties with our supposedly independent cancer charities. As such, the following statement from the Cancer Research Fund, now known as Cancer Research UK, comes as no surprise - a statement which formed part of its public education document entitled Preventing and Curing Cancer:

"One of the biggest myths in recent years is that there is a cancer epidemic being caused by exposure to radiation, pollution, pesticides and food additives. The truth is that these factors have very little to do with the majority of cancers in this country. In fact food additives may even have a protective effect - particularly against stomach cancer."

This statement attempts to protect petrochemicals, nuclear power, the synthetic food industry and other toxic concerns from carcinogenic enquiry. Protecting the likes of GSK perhaps?

Dying that they might live?
Writing in the UK's Guardian, George Monbiot says:
"Last year the Cancer Research Campaign predicted that cancer would be cured by 2050 as a result of new genetic technologies. Its website mentions pollution, but dismisses concerns with the claim that "experts think that only 5% of preventable cancer deaths may be linked to environmental factors." The CRC's 10-page press release on poverty and cancer blames inequalities in treatment for differing rates of death, but says nothing about pollution, even though the poor are far more likely to live beside dirty factories and toxic dumps than the rich. Give them more money, the cancer charities claim, and they will find the magic formula which will save us all from a hideous death. But could it be possible that we are dying so that they might live?"

Sleek cars and real estate
Across the pond to America and Professor James Bennett again:

"The American Cancer Society is an enormously wealthy organisation. It could pay every dime of its bills today and it would have over half a billion dollars in the bank, it could operate for approximately sixteen months without raising another dime from the American public. It holds immense wealth in the form of cash, certificates of deposits, stocks, bonds and particularly land and buildings. Just as one example, you can take a look at its Texas division. You wonder if it's a car dealership - it owns fifty-six automobiles. Or whether it's a real estate speculation company - it has fourteen parcels of raw land and seventeen office buildings. How raw land helps us find a cure for cancer or helps cancer victims is an enigma that I can't fathom."

With the merger of the CRC and CRI into one larger UK charity, the Cancer Research website contains links to many large conventional institutions and continues to promote everything that is dangerous about conventional cancer treatment today.

So, what about the
kindly gent with his tin?
For what it's worth, when it comes to deciding on whether or not to approach the kindly gent with his cancer charity tin, my philosophy is simple. Courtesy, a smile and a small donation (as much as it might gall on the inside!) is a small investment which usually opens the way for a productive conversation on orthodox fallibility and positive cancer treatment alternatives. At the very least, a website address can be written down on the sticker he's just given me which can then be returned to his own lapel!

Your Money and Your Life?
Examining the Cancer Charities
Martin Walker

Everybody knows what causes cancer. Bad diet; too much sunlight; cigarettes; faulty genes - and, of course, that virus which crops up near nuclear power installations. Modern science has told us so, and now it must tell us how it can be cured. But are we getting there? Diligent research, largely carried out by Britain's cancer charities, means that a cure for cancer is probably now nearer than ever.

That, at least, is one side of the cancer story; the side you can hear from establishment scientists, drugs companies and media science correspondents. But the other side is hidden from history and the public record. For, in truth, we do not know what the main causes of cancer are, nor why the disease is escalating. Apart from the continual propaganda about cigarettes, there is no public discourse about the chemical or environmental causes of cancer. And it is unlikely that the public will ever be informed about them while cancer research in Britain is dominated by a cabal of unaccountable doctors, scientists and surgeons - a 'cancer club' which garners some of its funding and much of its philosophy from an industrial infrastructure which independent scientists believe is itself the cause of rising cancer rates.

For cancer 'research' in Britain is a misnomer. As science and medicine have become increasingly interlocked with industry, the motivation, initiative and funding for preventative cancer research has all but dried up. Throughout the post-war years in Britain, industry, government and science have tried to tackle the cancer epidemic by searching for miracle cures rather than investigating causes; by playing with gene sequencers rather than looking at environmental pollution; by taking industry's money rather than looking at its record. The conclusion today is inescapable: Britain's cancer research charities are part of the problem, not the solution.

The 'cancer establishment'
There are over 600 cancer charities in the UK, but the three big players - the heart of the 'cancer establishment' - are the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF), the Cancer Research Campaign (CRC) and the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR). All are involved in the United Kingdom Co-ordinating Committee on Cancer Research (UKCCCR). The philosophical and scientific approach of this cancer establishment is frighteningly narrow. Its interest in researching environmental or chemical causes of cancer appears negligible. The great weight of its research is consumed with the deeply fashionable idea that unravelling the human genome will provide the solution to all human illness, cancer included - despite the fact that, on the highest estimates, no more than 5 per cent of cancers are considered to be hereditary.

These three charities preserve a near-monopoly over the whole field of cancer in the UK. They determine the public perception of what cancer is and what can be done about it. Yet all are essentially unaccountable, steeped in conservatism and the privilege which class and power have bestowed upon the top echelons of the British medical profession. Between them, they have been gradually and intermittently losing the war against many cancers for almost a century.

The Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF)
The Imperial Cancer Relief Fund was launched in 1902 with a £30,000 appeal - a 'scheme for investigating the cause, prevention and treatment of cancer' - by an independent group of physicians from the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Physicians. From the 1920's onward, the ICRF became essentially a public company and, in 1939, a charity.

The original London laboratory of the ICRF was staffed until the late 1950's by only nine scientists, whose annual expenditure in 1950 was around £41,000. After the building of a £2m laboratory in Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1963 however, the Fund grew rapidly. By the mid-1990's, it was receiving around £59m annually in donations, spending £50m on research and £10.5m on administration. Its assets, in investments, mortgages and property ownership stood at almost £90m. Today the ICRF boasts over 40 research groups based at Lincoln's Inn Fields, a laboratory in Hertfordshire which houses 10 research groups, and an additional 35 clinical units and research groups based in National Health hospitals and universities around the country. It employs over 1,000 scientists, doctors and technicians. In the year 1996-97, it spent over £56m on research.

An article in the Sunday People in the weeks after the opening of the Lincoln's Inn Fields laboratory was a foretaste both of the kind of tame journalism it would attract and the fostering of public guilt that was to characterise the ICRF over the next three decades. The writer estimated that the new laboratories would cost £700,000 a year to run, leaving a £620,000 shortfall for the Fund. The money to run the new cancer research laboratory could not, the article stated, come from the government. If it did, 'the State would want to keep a strict eye to see how its money was being spent.... the scientists themselves do not want this'. The paper then exhorted readers to send money to help the Fund 'beat cancer' within ten years - 'or even less'; money which could only come 'from you and me and the chap next door'.

The money duly came from the public's purses and wallets, as it has done ever since. After all, we all want to help 'beat cancer'. But how well has the ICRF done in that fight? According to its own fact sheet, Imperial Cancer Research Fund Past and Present, the Fund does not consider preventative research or trials of carcinogenic chemicals to be a priority. Of the 110 units, departments and laboratories cited in the ICRF 1998 Scientific Report, not one deals with chemical or environmental carcinogens, and only three look at preventative issues.

Why should this be? As with all the major cancer charities, the answer has to do with money - and, more specifically, the question of who funds the Fund, which is explored later in this article.

The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR)
The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) is an Associate Institute of the University of London, linked to the Royal Marsden NHS Trust. The Institute is not a charity, and so for a long time was unable to raise funds in the same way as the ICRF and the CRC. In 1991, however, it found a way around this, by setting up its own charity, Breakthrough Breast Cancer. By 1998, the charity had raised over £15m, which it spent building the Toby Robins Breast Cancer Research Centre at Sutton, Surrey.

Breakthrough is a different kind of cancer charity. Apparently popular, accessible and trendy, from the beginning it had close ties to the fashion and cosmetics industry (its biggest campaign was sponsored by Avon cosmetics), with very public support from models, actors and pop stars. This superficial populism makes no difference to its approach, though - it does exactly the same work as the other cancer charities, conducting no significant research into environmental or chemical causes of breast cancer. More than that, Breakthrough provides a public face for major drugs companies to sell their own approach to cancer treatment.

The setting up of Breakthrough solved more than funding problems for the ICR. When it gained a popular base it also gained trial subjects for the ongoing trials which the ICR was carrying out with the drug tamoxifen. Breakthrough's main drugs company sponsor is Zeneca, the pharmaceutical breakaway from ICI which developed tamoxifen. Breakthrough provided Zeneca with access to the House of Commons, when the charity provided a secretary to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Breast Cancer, a group composed solely of Members of Parliament. Through them, Breakthrough is able to control breast cancer information in parliament. This strategy ensures, as intended, that the All Party Parliamentary Group focuses on screening and treatment of cancer while ignoring its environmental or chemical causes.

The Cancer Research Campaign (CRC)
The British Empire Cancer Campaign, launched in 1923, became the Cancer Research Campaign (CRC) in 1980. Although smaller than the ICRF, by the mid-1990's, the CRC had an annual income from donations of £59m, a research allocation of £64.7m and assets of £25m.

Professor Gordon McVie, current director-general of the CRC, is a major cancer research apparatchik, and one of the two key players in the cancer research industry over the last two decades. McVie is probably best known for his absurd attempts to seduce children into eating vegetables. After Medical Research Council studies revealed that a diet rich in vegetables might reduce cancer rates, Professor McVie commissioned the Iceland Group to come up with brightly coloured or interestingly flavoured vegetables. In April 1997, cheese-and-onion flavoured cauliflower, chocolate coated carrots, pizza flavoured sweetcorn and peas tasting like baked beans hit the streets. Sales plummeted and Iceland soon withdrew the delicacies from its shelves. McVie came out of the affair looking distinctly silly.

McVie's vegetable brainwave is a good model by which to assess the approach of the CRC, and the big cancer charities in general. For orthodox cancer research is often concerned with changing the nature of things in order to adjust to problems created by contemporary society, rather than going to the root of the problems.

The UK Co-Ordinating Committee
on Cancer Research (UKCCCR)
The UKCCCR, set up in 1984 by the CRC, the ICRF and the Medical Research Council (MRC), seems to exist to serve the interests of the most powerful established research charities. Theoretically, it is supposed to co-ordinate the work of major cancer charities. In reality, its purpose seems to be to endorse cheques garnered by the big charities from mainly industrial funders.

The UKCCCR has around 15 main subcommittees, almost all of which are concerned with running clinical trials of various drugs produced by the pharmaceutical companies which fund them. Member organisations earmark funds received to be used under a sub-committee of the UKCCCR. In turn the UKCCCR lends its name to research for which the ICRF, the CRC and the ICR have received money. In essence, the function of the UKCCCR appears to be to give credibility to research paid for by drug companies, with which the ICRF, CRC and ICR do not wish to be publicly or charitably associated.

Spinning a line
The power of these charities is demonstrated by how effectively they control public access to the facts about cancer. There is no independent public review of the work of the cancer charities, which allows them to present their own version of events - and they do.

In the 1960's, the Imperial Cancer Research Fund was talking of curing cancer within ten years. Almost 40 years later, in January 1999, the Sunday Mirror ran a typical contemporary cancer article, based upon the results of the EUROCARE II study and a booklet published by the CRC. It was headlined, 'How we're winning the war on cancer'. At the top of the article, like a supermarket price ticket, was a table: 'Stomach cancer down 40%, Cervical cancer down 20%, Lung cancer down 5%, Oesophagus cancer down 5%, Child cancer cure rate 65%, Testicular cancer cure rate 90%, Breast cancer cure rate 60%, Skin cancer cure rate 97%...' In the middle of the article was a quote from Professor Gordon McVie of the Cancer Research Campaign:

"These million people [treated for and survived cancer over the last ten years] are alive because the results of research are at long last reaching the NHS. The wealth of investigation that has been taking place is coming to fruition."

This article was typical of the current reporting of cancer research and treatment. The approach has commonly identifiable parts; the shock troops are unverifiable statistics with no contextual moorings such as gender, age, occupation or class. While we are told that stomach cancer is 'down' 40 per cent, cervical cancer 'down' 20 per cent, lung cancer 'down' 5 per cent and oesophagus cancer 'down' 5 per cent, we are not told that any such reductions in fact have little to do with the cancer research charities. Such vacillations are governed almost entirely by lifestyle, fashion, occupational trends and carcinogenic product marketing.

Inevitably, such articles fail to tell the reader whether the cancers quoted as having rising cure rates represent a high or low percentage of overall cancer cases; nor is the reader given any idea how many other cancers are rising while having no treatment success. In fact, only one of the cancers cited in this particular article - breast cancer - is traditionally associated with high mortality rates, and some have always been successfully 'cured' with surgery.

Finally, the argument is always neatly concluded with bald, simplified assertions about 'prevention': too much sun, sex, cigarettes and a poor diet. Taken as a whole, this approach to propaganda avoids any reference to air pollution, chemical food additives, pesticides, alcohol or any occupational carcinogens whatsoever - into which research is rarely if ever conducted by these organisations. They have dumbed-down the debate on prevention and stifled the debate on causes.

In June 1997, the ICRF and the CRC scrambled to attack a Macmillan Cancer Relief Report which suggested that cancer rates would go on rising into the 21st century. Such views, though, are not unusual; in fact it is usually the CRC and the ICRF which hold the minority opinion on cancer rates. In January 1980, The Times reported that:

"More than £25 million a year is spent on cancer research in Britain, but the death rate from the condition has changed little since the war.... Research seems to have little effect in reducing the death rate from the four big killers; cancer of the lung, large intestines, breast and stomach."

This remains as true now as it was 20 years ago.

Doing the business
So who funds the cancer establishment? Who funds the research of the top doctors and scientists who consistently refuse to investigate wider environmental causes of the disease? The answer goes a long way to explaining why the top cancer charities behave as they do.

In bed with industry
When asked about funding, the bigger charities point to their fund-raising pie charts, which show that their major funding comes in individual covenants and donations, with only relatively minor amounts given by corporate sponsors. Yet this is to miss the point; for the big cancer research charities are steeped in an industrial culture which can serve to hide serious conflicts between the need for preventative research and the needs of industry.

Both the CRC and the ICRF hold substantial reserves - in the mid-'90's the ICRF's tied assets stood at £90m - most of which is invested in industry. Even as late as the mid-'90's it was revealed that the ICRF was 'inadvertently' investing in the tobacco industry. The investment portfolio of the cancer charities is not publicly accessible, and consequently it is not possible for supporters to ensure that investments have only been made in companies which are not implicit in the production of carcinogens.

The major charities also give the impression of being completely separate from the pharmaceutical industry, by processing their money through 'joint' organisations like the UKCCCR. Money for research into nuclear power and cancer, for example, given by the nuclear industry, is passed on to the UKCCCR, of which the ICRF and the CRC are partnership members. The UKCCCR has a very low public profile, and charitable contributors wishing to find out about its work or its funding often find it very difficult. Another group, the Clinical Trials Service Unit at Oxford, to which the ICRF and the British Heart Association are linked, accepts millions in research grants from pharmaceutical companies to research different therapies.

For some years now, the top charities have been competing like any other 'service provider' for corporate cash. Both the Cancer Research Campaign and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund invest heavily in creating 'Corporate Partnerships'. Tellingly, they sell their involvement with commerce and industry not on the grounds that companies will be helping to prevent or cure cancer, but that the companies themselves will profit from being aligned with the charity - as this quote from a Cancer Research Campaign document sent to business demonstrates:

"Supporting the CRC makes good business sense: Companies expect tangible and quantifiable returns from their work with charities. We can demonstrate the success of our commercial packages - successes that can make a real difference to sales, corporate image and teambuilding in your business."

The CRC's enticement to partnership is brazen. Nor is the charity shy about offering its brand image to commercial companies, telling companies: "86 per cent of consumers are more likely to buy a product that is associated with a cause. The most appealing 'causes' to consumers are health and medical research."

The ICRF is even more bullish in selling its partnership deals. Its website extols entrepreneurs to: "Make a difference to your business through increase in sales. We have proved that working with ICRF can improve sales results." Practising what it preaches, the ICRF currently works in 'partnership' with CGU Insurance, NM Rothchild, Siemens, Marks and Spencer, Tesco and Nike. The charity boasts to its partners that it enjoys a 97 per cent 'approval rating' amongst the UK's adult population; it is the image-booster par excellence for the average multinational.

Another point of conflict involves the boards and committees of the main cancer charities. A number of these committee and board members come from industries which themselves have a long and poor record on cancer. The Chairman of the CRC, for example, is R D C Hubbard, who for 10 years, from 1965-74, was on the board of Cape Industries, then a major manufacturer of the carcinogen asbestos.

Recently, the charities themselves have been branching out into business, and investing public money in the companies which will produce the drugs and diagnostic aids which they have researched. Early in 1999, for example, ICRF announced that it was to buy a £2.5m stake in Antisoma, a biotech company floated on the Pan-European Stock Exchange in 1998 and the London Stock Exchange in 1999. Antisoma's only product is a treatment for ovarian cancer developed by the ICRF. In such ways, the charity/industry nexus keeps itself moving in smooth circles.

Sloganeering
Though much of their funding now comes from business, the cancer charities are still adept at tugging at the public heartstrings - with a view to opening the public purse. Scarcely a month goes by without one or another of them launching a 'major appeal' to raise public money.

Such appeals have become more and more sophisticated over the decades. The charities now spend substantial amounts simply developing new slogans for these campaigns, such as the ICRF's recent 'Turning science into hope', or the misleading 'Finding cures, saving lives'. The charities have found, however, that the most effective slogans are those which insist that 'you' can make a difference. 'Working together, we can achieve so much more' claims Breakthrough Breast Cancer. 'Cooperation is the key to success' insists the Leukaemia Research Fund, which also promises that it is 'Spending your money wisely'. Yet it is virtually impossible for the public to find out how 'wisely' the LRF - or any of the other established cancer charities - are spending their money, for none of them offers a detailed prospectus, a general meeting or voting rights to subscribers, beneficiaries, workers or interested parties.

Destroying the opposition
The cancer establishment's refusal to research environmental and chemical causes of cancer could, perhaps, be seen as a crude sin of omission. But its determined and continual assault on all and any 'alternative' therapies and practitioners reveals the charities in their true colours - as footsoldiers for the chemical industry and the conventional medical establishment.

Such 'quackbusting' is not new. The cancer establishment, especially those leading figures involved with the ICR and the Royal Marsden Hospital, the ICRF and the CRC, have played a leading part in attacking alternative treatments for almost a century. By 1924, the ICRF was defining one of its primary roles as policing the alternatives:

"The knowledge thus obtained [by the ICRF] has helped to dissipate the atmosphere of hopelessness which formerly existed and has profoundly influenced the diagnosis and the treatment of cancer. It has also served to protect the public against spurious claims which have been made concerning the cause or the cures of the disease."

The high point of scientific medicine's assault upon alternative approaches to cancer was the 1939 Cancer Act, which coincidentally came into being in the same year that the ICRF was granted its Royal Charter and Charitable Status. The Act forbade, on pain of draconian punishment, anyone other than a qualified doctor, involved in work with cancer, from speaking about the causes or the treatment of cancer. From that point on, the cancer establishment and its partners in industry launched an all-out war on alternative approaches to cancer, which is still being fought today.

The big guns
A good example of this war, one of many similar tales, is the story of what happened to the Bristol Cancer Help Centre in 1991. That year, at a press conference, the ICRF and the CRC announced the results of research they claimed to have carried out into the 'therapeutic outcome' of the regime at Bristol Cancer Help Centre, an organisation dedicated to treating cancers with alternative means. The research concluded that women who attended Bristol after having breast cancer diagnosed were three times more likely to die as a result of their illness than women who had conventional treatment.

But the 'research' was not what it seemed. Although the researchers were supposed to carry out two studies, one on survival and the other on quality of life, they failed even to begin the quality of life study and announced the 'results' of the survival study only 18 months into a 5-year schedule. It was later found that the results of the preliminary study were bogus. The researchers had, for example, taken their sample from attendees at Bristol, even if these subjects had not been involved in the Bristol therapy. They had also failed to acknowledge that many of the Bristol attendees studied had previously had - failed - conventional surgery.

It was later revealed that one of the research team, an eminent oncologist, had also been a committee member of Healthwatch, an organisation set up with the main aim of debunking alternative treatments. The head of the study and the report's principal author, Dr Clare Chilvers, has since declared an interest in Zeneca, the company which produces tamoxifen, the anti-breast cancer drug.

Although the Bristol study was roundly condemned by statisticians, other researchers and Bristol Clinic attendees, and despite the fact that the publication of the research damaged many people's lives, it was three years before the CRC and the ICRF offered an apology. In January 1994, the Charities Commission censured both the CRC and the ICRF for the study, and consequently Professor McVie and Sir Walter Bodmer, the directors of the two charities at the time.

On this rare occasion, the wrongs done by the cancer establishment to their smaller rivals were made public. Sadly, though, this is the exception. Faced with the power of the big cancer charities, many alternative practitioners simply collapse.

What can be done?
The big cancer research charities have become the self-appointed watchdogs over emerging forms of treatment and the censors of campaigns which place the emphasis in cancer research upon the environment and chemicals. Instead of being academically independent and intellectually curious, cancer research scientists are now hand-in-hand with the very industrial system which has turned modern life into a maze of risk. The big cancer charities' effective monopoly is unaccountable to the people who fund them with voluntary contributions or the representatives of those who leave them bequests. Although they dictate NHS policy on cancer, they are unaccountable to parliament or the public.

Clearly, something has to change, and there are several areas that must be tackled.

Cleaning up funding
Since the 1980's, government in Britain has scaled back on public funding for scientific research; the consequent trend in research has been for those agencies which distribute large research budgets to enter into partnership with industry in order to secure shrinking funding. As a consequence, there has been a steady movement of research away from the accountable public sector into the unaccountable private sector.

The power and independence of the cancer charities owe a lot to the continuing unwillingness of government to become involved financially and scientifically in cancer research. Only by removing the dependency of cancer researchers on private money can research become honest again. There are several potential ways of doing this. Research could become the responsibility of the State, and be allocated a budget, dispersed through an autonomous agency similar to the Medical Research Council. Or genuinely independent organisations, placed under much tighter regulation than at present, could be allowed to flourish. There are other options too; but the crucial thing is that this topic is opened for public debate.

Assuring accountability
Cancer research has to be dragged from the grip of vested interests and returned to the more creative appraisal of genuinely independent academics, scientists and intellectuals. There are relatively simple ways of doing this. For example, anyone who has anything to do with cancer research should be vetted for links with carcinogen-producing industries. Office-holders and scientists working in cancer research should have to make a public declaration of all their interests in pharmaceutical or biotech companies. These declarations, together with staff salary figures, should be made publicly available. All cancer research scientists should also have to spend a major part of their time on non-chemical, non-genetic treatments or environmental causes of cancer.

Pursuing prevention
Crucially, though, we need to ensure that genuine research into the real causes of cancer - and thus into genuine prevention - can take place. A wide-ranging program of research into industrial carcinogens should become a priority of cancer research, while the literature on previously tested industrial carcinogens should be reviewed and regulated. All cancer research should be locked into the regulatory process, so that as soon as carcinogens are recorded or discovered, the appropriate regulatory agency acts upon this information [Tamoxifen, a case in point].

Statistical information about all cancers, including epidemiological statistics and those on causation - however inconclusive - should be compiled and published in a variety of different forms by an independent body to which the public has access. There should be a frequent public scientific, academic and financial audit of all cancer research, by an independent regulatory review body. The report of this audit should be debated in the House of Commons annually, at which time a yearly cancer research strategy should also be debated.

National Health Service treatment for cancer should also be deregulated and 'freed-up'. Experimental 'alternative' therapeutic work on cancer should be detached from the odium of criminalisation, while remaining within established regulatory boundaries and allowed into hospitals. Trusts throughout the country should be encouraged to explore community-based therapeutic initiatives.

The research, prevention and treatment of cancer is too important to be left in the hands of a small number of unaccountable scientists, funded by industry money and the voluntary sector. Cancer sufferers in Britain have paid too high a price for the indulgence of science and its utopian search for a universal elixir. They have also been kept in the dark for too long about the real price of technological and industrial progress. It is time for the cancer establishment to give up its secrets.

Martin J Walker is the author of six books, including Dirty Medicine. Anyone interested in investing in the publication of his next book - The Gatekeepers, a history of alternative cancer care in Britain, should contact him at Slingshot Publications, BM Box 8314, London WC1N 3XX

Further Resources:
Great News on Cancer in the 21st Century by Steven Ransom
Cancer: Why We're Still Dying to Know the Truth by Phillip Day

Chemo (Toxico) Therapy
by Karl Loren (abridged)

Introduction
The introduction of cytotoxic (chemo(toxico)therapy) chemical drugs into the (classic) therapeutic arsenal took place quite recently and may be traced back to the discovery, after World War II, of the anti-tumour effect of nitrogen mustard {methyl-bis (chloorethylamine), (NSC, 762, CIBA, BOOTS}. The aim of these (toxico)chemotherapeutic drugs was, and still is, to kill cancer cells left in tumours that can only partly, or not at all, be operated and/or irradiated; cancer cells left after surgical intervention; or those arrived in the bloodstreams. The absolute elimination of cancer cells remains the ultimate goal of chemo(toxico)therapy. According to the academic-medicine point of view, complete remission can only be realized if cancer cells are removed or killed. Consequently, the purpose is to eliminate a maximum number of cancer cells, even if this means the inevitable killing of a number of healthy cells. The chemo(toxico)therapeutic drugs (known so far) are not selective and destroy both sound and malignant cells. Therefore, they are cytotoxic (cell toxic) rather than tumour toxic. Throughout this work, we will contradict the assumption that cancer (disease) will be destroyed (the so-called regeneration ad integrum). As a matter of fact, more and more classic cancer researchers now start to dispute the belief in the efficiency of cancer cell destruction as the optimal way of curing cancer (12).

Whilst compiling this survey our major concern was to give the reader the clearest view possible of what is being concealed by the medical establishment. Therefore we have searched and reflected on the medical literature worldwide so that the reader is aware that the bibliographic examples we have selected represent merely the tip of a massive iceberg of what is being written in medical circles about chemo(toxico) therapeutics. The contents of these articles is of less importance to the reader as, in the majority of cases, the titles are more then self-explanatory.

The enumeration is far from complete and covers in the main short periods of time within the years mentioned. The proportion of medical articles on this subject that we have quoted is infinitesimally small and the anthology that is currently being presented is only a small fraction of the literature about the harmful side-effects of the 'remedies', compared to what has been published on the subject.

It is enough to envisage the cancer-producing effects of these drugs to urge the utmost caution, not to say suspicion, about this deadly therapeutic arsenal and those doctors who stubbornly promote it.

"There is only one disease of which doctors can always cure us: our credulity with respect to them" (J. Petit-Senn).

The purpose of this section is manifold. Its principal intention is to provide both patient and unspecialised general practitioner with insight into the classic therapeutic arsenal, the action of therapeutic agents and, more particularly, the many side-effects which they produce. This will enable the emancipated patient to decide consciously and with full knowledge of the facts, pro or against a specific therapy.

Indeed, 'specialists' tend to assume that the cancer patient is not emancipated; the patient must not be too well or too precisely informed, and he must actually 'undergo' the treatment willingly as this represents his only and best chance.

For this purpose, both statistics about prognoses, and side-effects of the therapeutic agents used, are obscured.

Statistics
Success statistics are being manipulated and fabricated in such an expert and subtle way that they give evidence of some manifest and significant progress in the fight against cancer. In medical circles, this systematic and large-scale deceit is excused by the concern 'not to cause panic' in cancer patients who do not have any serious alternative anyhow than walk the classic therapeutic way. It goes without saying that not only are all alternative ways of treatment en bloc rejected for being useless and even dangerous, but furthermore, the hypothesis that a patient would prefer n o t to be treated and, consequently, live the rest of his life in a qualitative more positive way, is considered to be non-existent. This is even more criminal because the fact that chemo(toxico)therapy would have any effect on cancer patients' life expectations, is far from being proven. On the contrary, comparative studies with non-treated patients have revealed that chemo(toxico) therapy does not produce any life-prolonging effects (1). Untreated patients appear to live (survive) at least as long as treated patients (2).

1. A first manipulation of cure statistics consists in the (theoretic) distinction which is made between early diagnosed and late discovered cancer. The first kind would be easy to treat and even curable, whereas only those cancers which are discovered (too) late would be fatal.

The patient-directed information provided by the different official national cancer institutes thus represent the various chances of recovery (= 5 years of survival), according to the fact whether cancer was discovered early or (too) late. For carcinoma of the lung, early discovery represents 75% chance of recovery, while later discovery only gives 20% chance. For carcinoma of the gullet, recovery (or better, remission) is possible in 50% of early diagnosed cases, but only in 2% (say two percent!) of late location. Stomach cancers are curable in 90% of cases with early diagnosis, but only in 10% if the disease is detected (too) late. Biliary duct cancer is curable in 25% with early diagnosis and in barely 2% with late diagnosis. Cancer of the intestine offer 80% chance of recovery with early discovery but only 30% if the diagnosis is carried out late. Cancers of female sexual organs offer 75 in 100 chances of being cured of the diagnosis takes place in time. With late diagnosis there are hardly 5 chances in 100 to reach the five years' limit. Breast cancers offer 85% and 25% respectively, kidney cancers 75% and 20%, prostate cancers 80% and 2 to 3% (!) according to early or late diagnosis. For bladder cancers, the chance of survival is 90% in the early stage and 15% in the late stage. Cancers of the osseous system may be remedied in 85% of cases when they were located early; otherwise, there is only a chance of 2%! Blood cancers and cancers of the haematopoietic system make a chance of 50% of remission with early detection and only 5% when the cancer is discovered late (3).

A suggested conclusion from the above is that cancer can indeed be remedied in a large percentage of cases ... if only it is detected in time. Figures are then quite hopeful: lung cancer 75% chances of survival, stomach cancer 90%, breast cancer 85%, bladder cancers 90%, etc. If, on the other hand, cancer is discovered in a late stage - but who would ever count himself among this category - figures are alarming : only very low percentages of survival chances.

The trick - or swindle - however consists in that the theoretic early-stage model upon which the entire favourable prognosis statistics are built, is unapproachable in practice. The hopeful early stage, which is referred to in the statistics, is situated at a level when the tumour hardly counts some 4000 cells and has reached a diameter of 0.06 cm. (i.e. after the 13th cell division). At this level, the first micro metastases are already developing, which will escape all forms of later classic therapy. This (real) early stage is purely theoretical because at this moment it is not (yet) possible to be located by means of current modern diagnostic methods. Only from the 21st cell division onwards, when the tumour counts two million cells and has acquired a diameter of 1 cm., diagnosis becomes feasible. However, even in the terminology used by the statistics, this is already considered to be a late stage and more alarming percentages of survival will occur. If one is lucky and has a diagnostic examination precisely at the moment when the tumour reaches the 21st cell division - a rarely occurring case - even then, the early stage indicated by statistics has been long exceeded and the category of very low percentages of survival has already been reached; 20% for carcinoma of the lung, 10% for carcinoma of the stomach, 2% for gullet cancer, etc.

These most alarmingly low figures apply in the majority of cases - the so-called early diagnosis is hardly over obtained - and represent, moreover, the real remission chances for the different forms of cancer. In a recent report, the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) (4) has confirmed that hardly any progress in the fight against cancer has been made over the past 25 years. Death following certain widely spread forms of cancer has even increased in a terrifying way.

Over the period 1960-1985 cancer mortality was compared in 28 industrial countries (5). It appeared that death due to cancer has increased in general by 58% for men, and by 40% for women. Today, 40% more men and 200% more women die from cancer of the lung than twenty-five years ago. The chance to die from breast cancer between the ages of 45 and 64 is nowadays 37% higher than in 1960 (6), and consequently, the number of cancer cases also increased in that proportion. If it had not been for this correction, mortality figures in 1985 would have been even higher. Only death as a consequence of stomach cancers has declined by 12% in 25 years. However, the W.H.O.-report does not ascribe this declined mortality with regard to stomach cancers to any therapeutic progress, but rather to improved living and eating patterns :

"In addition it would appear that such factors as non-specific life-style changes have been the major cause of decline in stomach cancer" (7).

2. A second manipulation of statistics is the introduction of an unscientific element in the statistic juggling of medicracy, namely the beginning of the five years' remission period. It is obvious that this period will be longer or shorter according to the fact whether the patient goes to see the doctor from the first suspicious moment, or only after he has experienced certain discomforts. In the first case - the hypochondriac patient - the remission period will start off much sooner than in the second case. Statistically, the first patient will therefore 'survive' longer than the second without the chemo(toxico)therapy (or other) treatment having anything to do with it. As far as statistics are concerned, however, it is the treatment which has facilitated the longer survival. This evidence which has incorporated in the remission statistics may be compared with the equally evident 'ascertainment' : the younger the person, the better his/her chance of a longer life. The latter evidence only differs from the former in that it was not elevated to a 'medical success'.

This supplementary deceit of figures helps, furthermore, to keep up the myth 'the earlier discovered, the better the chances of recovery. Indeed, the first patient in the above cited example was lucky to have an 'early' diagnosis and will therefore (?) survive longer. For the second patient, the diagnosis was set 'late' and therefore (?) he will not live as long. It goes without saying that the therapy has nothing to do with it and that the longer survival is only owing to the fact that the counting off was started sooner. Nevertheless, such cases are put on by the medical establishment in order to fortify therapy successes.

3. A third purposive and straight falsification of recovery statistics consists in the assumption that the 'remission' limit of five years is only reached thanks to chemo(toxico)therapy treatment. This results, in fact, in the postulation that untreated patients do not have any chance of reaching the 5 years' survival. This hypothesis is even more malicious because - as we mentioned before - investigation has revealed that untreated patient lived (survived) (at least) as long as chemo(toxico) therapy treated patient.

The real figure of recoveries can only be obtained by making the difference between the five years' chance of survival of all patients after treatment, and the five years' chance of survival of the same patient if they had been left untreated. Thus the effectiveness of treatment could be measured and quantified. In medical circles, however, natural survival with cancer is confused and put on a par with the effectiveness of a medical treatment. It is not without any cynicism that we remind of the fact that the medical establishment accepts and proclaims that cancer patients who are treated in the classic medical way 'survive', and owe this exclusively to the therapy they followed. When, on the other hand, differently or non-treated patients also 'survive' - and in much better circumstances - they are said to have experienced a 'spontaneous remission' ...

4. However, the medical lobby tends to use many more sophisms in order to prove their successes. Under the cover of 'preferring the certain to the uncertain', borderline or dubious cases have lately been diagnosed and treated more and more like cancers. In itself a noble motivation, of only the applied treatment were not as mutilating and its efficiency not as doubtful. So, for example, terms have been introduced for quasi-cancer diseases such as dysplasia (deformation), carcinoma in situ (cancer which has not yet broken enough the tissue structure), pre-carcinoma and micro-invasive cancers (8).

This enriched medical vocabulary describing quasi- and pseudo-cancers and, the inevitably ensuing confusion have already produced a terrifying number of unnecessary mutilating operations (especially in the genealogical sector and on either side of the female navel) (9) and even harmful chemo(toxico)therapeutic operations (10).

It goes without saying that if non-cancers, pseudo- and quasi-cancers are regarded as cancers 'by way of precaution', the chances of recovery increase with the number of thus diagnosed pseudo-cancers.

5. Another fatal consequence of this medicratic deceit may be illustrated by the following example. When, for example, an experienced physician succeeds in discovering by means of palpation, a mass with a diameter of hardly 1 cm. in the prostate gland which, after histopathological investigation appears to be a cancer, and if it is removed by surgery, the patient will probably reach the five years' limit and be declared free of cancer, thus adding another case to the list of medical successes. The danger that lurks in this diagnosis is that the micro metastisisation had already taken place before the operation (11) (during the operation, more malignant cells may have arrived into the bloodstreams (12)) and that a new pre-cancerous phase has been developed which most probably after five, but certainly within ten or fifteen years, will produce a new tumour, while classic therapy will be incapable of avoiding this. For indeed, the therapeutic arsenal of academic medicine is only armed against tumours and completely ignores the initial phase, the cancer disease which precedes the tumour phase. Biological alternative therapies on the other hand do have an eye for the cancerous disease and, for the pre-cancerous lead-up which takes many years, and claim to be capable of eliminating the disease in the pre-tumourous stage. However, medicracy usually deprives the cancer patient of this possibility. In this case, the alternative methods do not even enter the (private hunting-) field of academic medicine, because, as we have said before, classic therapy does not even claim to combat the pre-cancerous lead-up phase. Alternative approaches therefore are the only and, consequently, the best chances of preventing the 'cured' cancer from being succeeded by a new one. Nonetheless, this alternative is being denied to the 'cured' patient who takes his declaration of recovery much too literally and irrevocably.

Conclusion
As a conclusion we may openly accuse (and regret) that the medical world - for whatever reason or purpose - reverts to an unmitigated, subtle mechanism of falsification which it has been built into medical statistics, thus ascribing their pretended success - which rests on nothing else but deceit - to an irrevocably mutilating surgery and an undeniable toxic (and often cancer-producing and mutagenic) chemo- and radiotherapy.

This organized statistical deceit is built in on different levels with a synergistic falsifying effect. Recapitulating :

1. Unapproachably early diagnosed cancers would entail very high chances of remission - which are held out to the outside world - and 'only' the cancers which are discovered too late are almost always fatal. The real mortality of cancer is put under the cover of late discovered cancers : 80% mortality with carcinoma of the lung, 90% mortality with stomach cancer, 98% death risk with gullet cancer, etc. It is suggested moreover, that early diagnosis will drastically curtail these mortality figures, which would in effect be true if it would be possible, as far as methods, material and technique are concerned, to make 'early diagnoses', which is not the case with current medical possibilities.

2. The counting-off of the five years' remission period - and not some treatment method success - is decisive for the longer or the shorter period of survival.

3. The medical establishment confuses willingly or knowingly 'natural' chances of survival with therapeutic successes, a favour which they refuse to acknowledge when judging extra-medical successes.

4. Borderline and dubious (quasi- and pseudo-cancers) cases are 'by way of precaution' considered more and more as cancers, and successes increase proportionally with the wrongly diagnosed cancers. And again, this is a favour which is strongly denied to the alternative treatments : a patient 'cured' by the alternative way is surely a patient who had a 'dubious' or 'unreliable' cancer diagnosis.

5. To consider a remission of several years as free of cancer and a therapy success, when there is a good, to very good chance that a new pre-cancerosis has begun, precisely under the influence of (mutagenic and cancerigenic) radio- or chemotherapy which will break open vehemently - though after the blessed declaration of freedom of cancer - is a last described deceitful presentation on account of medical establishment.

Side-effects
In this section we intend to provide patients and doctors in good faith with a realistic picture of the therapy successes and their side-effects. For more than five years we have been sifting, exhaustively, classic medical literature, the result of which will be reflected in this chapter. It provides a realistic inside-look on chemo(toxico)therapy as it is known in medical circles, but which is carefully and systematically being concealed extra muros. For this deliberate suppression of essential information, the medical corps appeals once more to the unemancipated position of the patient who might perhaps prefer to be treated differently, or not at all, and long for a more worthy life-ending instead of the mutilated survival! The patient is deprived of this option in a well-orchestrated, Machiavellian way. The right to live becomes the duty to survive according to the rules of current medical art.

This section aims at refuting the myth that chemo(toxico)therapy would be the only efficient way to fight cancer. It is indispensable that the cancer patient knows, and realizes, that he may succumb to his chemo(toxico)therapeutic treatment, or contract a second cancer (most therapeutic agents are cancer-producing!) and that, if he is favoured with a 'survival period', he will certainly have to 'live' with numerous side-effects, going from banal digestive upsets, to haemorrhage, impairment (reversible or otherwise) of the blood image, marrow, liver, bladder, lung, heart, etc., not to mention the permanent (but well-founded) fear for mutagenic and cancer-producing side-effects of chemotherapy agents. Non-cancer patients may be confronted with these expected iatrogenic effects as well. Indeed, non-malignant (such as rheumatism, psoriasis) are 'treated' with such anti-cancer agents.

In a period when the right to self-determination, emancipation, women's right to decide on abortion, all sorts of liberties, are in everybody's mind, it makes no sense that only the (cancer) patient would be considered and treated as unemancipated and that 'in his own interest' he would be kept ignorant about what he is up against. All elements must be presented to him, thus enabling him to make his own decision in a conscious way and with full knowledge of the facts - a decision of life and death, for that matter!

The side-effects of chemotherapy drugs are generally categorized in the medical studies as follows, according to their 'site of action' :

1. DIGESTIVE UPSETS (NAUSEA, VOMITING, ANOREXIA, STOMATITIS, DIARRHOEA, ETC.):
SCHEIN, P.S., MACDONALS, J.S., WATERS, C., HAIDAK,D., Nutritional complications of cancer and its treatment, Semin. Oncol., Dec. 1975; 2 (4): 337-347; DREIZEN, S., Stomatotoxic manifestations of cancer chemotherapy, J. Prosthet. Dent., Dec. 1978; HYSON, E.A., BURRELL, M., TOFFLER, R., Drug-induced gastro intestinal disease, Gastrointest. Radiol., 20 Dec. 1977; 2 (3): 183-212; OHNOMA, T., HOLLAND, J.F., Nutritional consequences of cancer chemotherapy and immunotherapy, Cancer Res., July 1977, 37 (7 Pt 2): 2395-2406; N.N., Cancer chemotherapy the inbuilt deterrent, Br. Med. J., 24 Nov. 1979; 2 (6201): 1312-1313; SCHUM, C.A., IZUTSU, K.T., MOLBO, D.M., TRUELOVE, E.L., GALLUCCI,B., Changes in salivary buffer capacity in patients undergoing cancer chemotherapy, J. Oral. Med., Jul-Sept., 1979; 34 (3): 76-80; SCOGNA, D.M., SMALLEY, R.V., Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting, Am J. Nurs., Sept. 1979; 79 (9): 1562-1564; KENNEDY, M., PACKARD, R., GRANT, M.M., PADILLA, G.V., Chemotherapy related nausea and vomiting: a survey to identify problems and interventions, Oncol. Nurs. Forum, Winter 1981; 8 (1): 19-22.

2. AFFECTIONS OF THE SKIN AND MUCUOUS MEMBRANE (ALL SORTS OF AFFECTIONS, NAIL DAMAGE, ALOPECIA, ETC.):
NIXON, D.W, Alterations in nail pigment with cancer chemotherapy, Arch. Intern. Med., Oct. 1976; 136 (10): 1117-1118; DREIZEN, S., BODEY, G.P., RODRIGUEZ, V., McCREDIE, K.B., Cutaneous complications of cancer chemotherapy, Postgrad. Med., Nov. 1975; 58 (6): 150-158; BARAN, R., Pigmentation of the nail (chromonynchia), J. Dermatol. Surg. Oncol., Mar. 1978; 4 (3): 250-254; GAUCI, L., SERROU, B., Changes in hair pigmentation associated with cancer chemotherapy, Cancer Treat. Rep., Jan. 1980; 64 (1): 193.

3. HAEMATOPOIETIC ALTERATION (IMMUNO-DEPRESSION, BLOOD COMPOSITION ALTERATION, ETC.):
JEDRZEJCZAK, W.W., SIEKIERZYNSKI, M., CZARNECKI, C., DZIUK, E., Patterns of changes in peripheral blood composition in the course of combination chemotherapy of cancer, Strahlentherapie, Nov. 1976; 152 (5): 469-476; BODEY G.P., RODRIGUEZ, V., McCREDIE, K.B., FREIREICH, E.J., Neutropenia and infection following cancer chemotherapy, Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys., Jan. - Feb. 1976; 1 (3-4): 301-304; VAN DER HOEVEN, L., CHANG, J.C., Disorders of granulocytes induced by toxic agents, Ann. Clin. Lab. Sci., Sept. - Oct. 1976; 6 (5): 415-422; TATTERSHALL, M.H., Aggressive cancer treatment and its role in predisposing to infection, Eur. J. Cancer, Aug. 1975; 11 Suppl.: 9-19; RENOUX, M., BERNARD, J.F., TORRES, M., SCHLEGEL, N., AMAR, M., LOPEZ, M., BOIVIN, P., Erythrocyte abnormalities induced by chemotherapy and radiotherapy: induction of pre leukaemic state., Scand. J. Hematol., Oct. 1978; 21 (4): 323-332; FERRARO, E.F., Implications of anti neoplastic therapy, Dent. Surv., Febr. 1978; 54 (2): 32-33; MASON, B.A., KLUG, P.P., COHEN, P., Bone marrow necrosis during chemotherapy for lymphoma, J.A.M.A., 20 Mar. 1978; 239 (12): 1158; BADHURI, S., RASHE, H., KÖHLE, W., DIETRICH, M., Blutgerinnungsstudien bei Patienten mit akuter Leukämie vor und nach zytostatischer Chemotherapie, Verh. Dtsch. Ges. Inn. Med., 17-21 Apr. 1977; 83: 1142-1144; KAKISHITA, E., YOSHIMURA, S., Influence of anti cancer chemotherapy on haemostatic mechanism (Japanese), Rinsho Byori, Dec. 1977, 25 (12): 985-991; NERI, A., BRUGIATELLI, M., COMIS, M., IACOB, P., NOBILE, F., PACIUCCI, P.A., LOMBARDO, V.T., Severe acute hyperkalaemia following chemotherapy, Haematologica (Pavia), Jun. 197 ***; 62 (3): 331-332; KREPLER, P., Infections in children with malignant disease, Wien. Klin. Wochenschr., 9 Nov. 1979; 91 (21): 707-71 *** ; RYBALBA, A.M., Prevention and treatment of haemapoietic disorders during the chemotherapy of malignant ovarian tumours (Ukranian), Pedriatr. Akush. Ginekol., Sept. - Oct. 1979; (5): 45-46; ETIEMBLE, J., BERNARD, J.F., PICAT, C., BELPOMME, D., BOIVIN, P., Red blood cell enzyme abnormalities in patients treated with chemotherapy, Br. J. Haematol., Jul. 1979; 42 (3): 391-398: HAROUSSEAU, J.L., TOBELEM, G., SCHAISON, G., JACQUILLAT, C., Leucémies aigues lymphoblastiques hyperleucocytaires: problèmes d'urgence au cours du traitement initial, Nouv. Presse Méd., 19 May 1979; 8 (22): 1827-1830; LY, B., SOLHEIM, B.G., SKAR, A.G., Granulocytopenia and infections during induction therapy of acute leukaemia (Norwegian), Tidsskr. Nor. Laegeforen, Febr. 1981; 101 (6): 379-386.

4. AFFECTION OF THE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS (STERILITY, IMPOTENCE, AZOOSPERMIA, AMENORRHEA, GYNECOMASTIA, ETC.):
RUSSEL, J.A., POWLES, R.L., OLIVER, R.T., Conception and congenital abnormalities after chemotherapy of acute myelogenous leukaemia in two men, Br. Med. J., 19 Jun. 1976; 1 (6024): 1508; SIRIS, E.S., LEVENTHAL, B.G., VAITUKAITIS, J.L., Effects of childhood leukaemia and chemotherapy on puberty and reproductive function in girls, N. Engl. J. Med., 20 May 1976; 294 (21): 1143-1146; ASBJORNSEN, G., MOLNE, K., KLEPP, O., AAKVAAG, A., Testicular function after combination chemotherapy for Hodgkin's disease, Scand. J. Haematol., Jan. 1976; 16 (1): 66-69; DI LIBERTI, J.H., Teratogenesis and chemotherapy, Ann. Intern. Med., Nov. 1974; 81 (5): 709; SUTCLIFFE, S.B., Cytotoxex chemotherapy and gonadal function in patients with Hodgkin's disease, J.A.M.A., 26 Oct. 1979; 242 (17): 1898-1899; CHAPMAN, R.M., SUTCLIFFE, S.B., MALPAS, J.S., Cytotoxic-induced ovarian failure in Hodgkin's disease. Effects on sexual function, J.A.M.A., 26 Oct. 1979; 242 (17): 1882-1884; GLASS, A.R., BERENBERG, J., Gynecomastia after chemotherapy for lymphoma, Arch. Intern. Med., Sept. 1979; 139 (9): 1048-1049; RUSTIN, G.J., BAGSHAWE, K.D., NEWLANDS, E.S., BEGENT, R.H., Cytotoxic drugs and sterility, Lancet, 13 Jun. 1981; 1 (8233): 1316; THORNELDE, W.F., Cytotoxic-induced ovarian failure in Hodgkin's disease, J.A.M.A., 1 Aug. 1980; 244 (5): 435.

5. RENAL AND LIVER DAMAGE:
JAYABOSE, S., SHENDE, A., LANZKOWSKY, P., Hepatotoxicity of chemotherapy following nephrectomy and radiation therapy for right-sided Willms tumour, J. Pediatr., May 1976; 88 (5): 898; KANFER, A., ROLAND, J., CHATELET, F., RICHET, G., Insuffisance rénale aigue hyperphosphatémique au cours d'un lymphosarcome, J. Urol. Nephrol., (Paris), Apr. - May 1979; 85 (4-5): 337.

6. IMPAIRMENT OF THE OSSEOUS (SKELETAL) SYSTEM:
IHDE, D.C., DEVITA, V.T., Osteonecrosis of the femoral head in patients with lymphoma treated with intermittent combination chemotherapy, Cancer, Nov. 1975; 36 (5): 1585-1588.

7. PULMONARY DISEASES:
KÜHBÖCK, S., Lungenfibrosen nach Behandlung mit Zytostatika, Wien. Med. Wochenschr., 1 Oct. 1976; 126 (40): 568-570; CAUBARRERE, I., Les pneumopathies infectueuses au cours de la chimiothérapie des hémopathies malignes, Rev. Prat., 21 May 1976; 26 (29): 2051-2060; SIZOD, W., WOLVIUS, G.G., Pneumocystis-pneumonie als complicatie bij cytostatische therapie, Nederl. Tijdschr. Geneeskunde, 6 Mar. 1976; 120 (10): 418-424; SAUER, E., GULLOTTA, U., FINK, U., Akute beidseitige Lungeninfiltration als Komplikation der Zytostatischen Therapie, Dtsch. Med. Wochenschr., 10 Oct. 1975; 100 (41): 2098-2101; OKITA, H., ITO, K., TAKETOMI, Y., FUJIMURA, K., KURAMOTO, A., Four patients with leukaemia who showed especially a typical type of interstitial pneumonia, probably caused following the administration of anti-leukaemic drugs (Japanese), Jpn. J. Clin. Hematol., 30 Jul. 1974; 15 (7): 764-773; HERMANSKY, F., BENESOVA, E., CHMEL, J., JIRAK, A., Pulmonary complications caused by cytostatic treatment (Czech), Vnitr. Lek., Jun. 1977; 23 (7): 695-701; DEMETER, S.L., AHAMD, M., TOMASHEKSKI, J.F., Drug-induced pulmonary disease, Cleve. Clin. Q., Fall 1979; 46 (3): 113-124; ZHU, G.Y., Acute pulmonary edema during chemotherapy of late stage tumors (Chinese), Chung Hua Chieh Ho Ho Hu Hsi Hsi Chi Ping Tsa Chih, Dec. 1980; 3 (4): 201-202.

8. MUTAGENIC (CANCER-CAUSING) CHANGES:
MAJSKY, A., JAKOUBKOVA, J., ABRAHAMOVA, J., Chemotherapy one of the causes of transient loss of HLA antigens and lymphocyte poly-reactivity in patients with blood diseases and malignancies, J. Immunogenet., Dec. 1976; 3 (6): 429-433; ROSS, G.T., Congenital anomalies among children born of mothers receiving chemotherapy for gestational trophoblastic neoplasms, Cancer, Feb. 1976; 37 (2 Suppl.): 1043-1047; POLEKSIC, S., YEUNG, K.Y., Rapid development of keratoancanthoma and accelerated transformation into squamous cell carcinoma of the skin: a mutagenic effect of polychemotherapy in a patient with Hodgkin's disease, Cancer, Jan. 1978; 41 (1): 12-16; SCHAISON, G., JACQUILLAT, C., AUCLERC, G., WEIL, M., Les risques foeto-embryonnaires des chimiothérapies, Bull. Cancer (Paris), 1979; 66 (2): 165-170; SAKALOVA, A., BENKO, J., IZAKOVIC, V., Anti tumorous therapy and its consequences upon gravidity and foetus (Slovakian), Cesk. Gynekol., May 1979; 44 (4): 272-276; SCHADER, A.I., Teratogenic effects of anti leukaemia chemotherapy, Arch. Intern. Med., Mar. 1981; 141 (4): 514-515; KAEMPFER, S.H., The effects of cancer chemotherapy on reproduction: a review of the literature, Oncol. Nurs. Forum, Winter 1981; 8 (1): 11-18.

9. CANCER-PRODUCING SIDE-EFFECTS:
HAQUE, T., LUTCHER, C., FAGUET, G., TALLEDI, O., Chemotherapy-associated acute myelogenous leukaemia and ovarian carcinoma, Am. J. Med. Sci., Sept. - Oct. 1976; 272 (2): 225-228; JOCHIMSEN, P.R., PEARLMAN, N.W., LAWTON, R.L., Pancreatic carcinoma as a sequel to therapy of lymphoma, J. Surg. Oncol., 1976; 8 (6): 461-464; SEIDENFELD, A.M., SMYTHE, H.A., OGRYZLO, M.A., UROWITZ, M.B., DOTTEN, D.A., Acute leukaemia in rheumatoid arthritis treated with cytotoxic agents, J. Rheumatol., Sept. 1976; 3 (3): 295-304; ROBERTS, M.M., Acute leukaemia after immunosuppressive therapy, Lancet, 9 Oct. 1976; 2 (7989): 768-770; KUIS, W., DE KRAKER, J., KUIJTEN, R.H., DONCKERWOLCKE, R.A., VOUTE, P.A., Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia after treatment of nephrotic syndrome with immunosuppressive drugs, Helv. Paediatr. Acta, Jun. 1976; 31 (1): 91-95; NAESS, K., Cancer of the pancreas chemically induced. Can drugs play a role? (Norwegian), Tidsskr. Nor. 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10. IMPAIRMENT OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM:
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11. CARDIOTOXICITY:
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The Nitrilosides in Plants and Animals
Nutritional and Therapeutic Implications
by Ernst T Krebs Jr.
John Beard Memorial Foundation

Since the principal objective of this presentation is a study of the clinical use of the Laetriles (nitrilosides), because these substances yield nascent HCN [hydrogen cyanide/prussic acid] when they undergo enzymatic hydrolysis in vivo, it will be helpful if one begins with a general study of the nitrilosides in plants and animals.

A nitriloside is a naturally occurring or synthetic compound which, upon hydrolysis by a beta-glucosidase, yields a molecule of a non-sugar, or aglycone, a molecule of free hydrogen cyanide, and one or more molecules of a sugar or its acid. There are approximately 14 naturally occurring nitrilosides distributed in over 1200 species of plants. Nitrilosides are found in all plant phyla from Thallopliyta to Sperimatophyta.

The nitrilosides specifically considered in this paper are 1-mandelonitrile-beta-diglucoside (amygdalin) and its hydrolytic products; l-para-hydroxymandelonitrile-beta-glucoside (dhurrin); methylethyl-ketone-cyanohydrin-beta-glucoside (lotaustralin); and acetone- cyanohydrin-beta-glucoside (linamarin). All of these compounds are hydrolyzed to free HCN, one or more sugars and a non-sugar or aglycone. For the purposes of this study, they may be considered as physiologically and pharmacologically identical and varying essentially only in the percent of free HCN they produce upon hydrolysis by beta-glucosidase.

The concentration of nitrilosides in plants varies widely and ranges from small traces to as much as 30,000 mg/kg in some of the common pasture grasses (in the dry state). There is no evidence that animals synthesize nitrilosides under normal conditions. The metabolism of all the higher animals, and most of the invertebrates as well, involves the hydrolysis of plant-derived nitrilosides ingested in the plant components of the diet. This hydrolysis is produced by beta-glucosidase occurring in the gastro-intestinal tract and produced in various tissues of the animal. The enzyme occurring in the intestinal tract is produced by various bacteria or microflora. When the enzyme so produced or that enzyme existing in the organs acts to hydrolyze the nitrilosides to free HCN, sugar and a non-sugar moiety, the CN ion released is detoxified or converted by an enzyme normally occurring in the organism and known as rhodanese or thiosulfate transulfurase. The product of such conversion is thiocyanate, a compound found in the tissues of all vertebrates, many invertebrates and a number of plants.

It is one of the objectives of this report to survey extensively but not intensively the indispensable but long-overlooked role of the nitrilosides in the plant and animal kingdoms. The material utilized for this paper comprises, to a large extent, an abstract of a book now in preparation on the subject. The latter carries a bibliography in excess of 3,000 titles. It is not possible in this report to supply an adequate bibliography. We have therefore limited the references in this paper, as a rule, to isolated or specific experimental observations; and we have omitted the citation of reference sources for data that are commonplace or unquestioned facts in the universe of the relevant expert. For this reason, statements undocumented here may often appear extraordinary to a reader not intimately acquainted with sophisticated data derived from disciplines often distant from his own. For example, even to experts in animal husbandry, agriculture, pharmacology, and toxicology, it may come as an almost unbelievable statement that cattle, in the course of grazing, may daily ingest grasses containing as much as 30,000 mg/kg of nitriloside (carrying over 2.0 grams of derivable HCN) over a period of years without discernible effect. The grasses involved have, however, been repeatedly assayed by reliable and universally accepted techniques and the quantities ingested by sheep and cattle have been repeatedly and carefully measured. The results have been duly published in acceptable journals over the world.

NITRILOSIDES AND NITRILES
IN TERMS OF BIOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE
Nitrilosides are produced by, and HCN enters into the metabolism of, members of the plant kingdom extending from bacteria, moulds and fungi to the common fruits - apricots, peaches, cherries, berries, and the like - comprising the Rosaceae and extending through the Leguminosae - lima beans, vetch, pulses, clovers - to the Graminae with over eighty grasses of the latter family carrying one or more specific nitrilosides.

No area of the earth that supports vegetation lacks nitriloside-containing plants. Over 30 per cent of all tropical plants, edible or inedible by man or animals, contain a nitriloside. From the nitriloside-rich salmon-berry, cloud-berry or buffalo-berry (Rubus spectabilis) growing on the Arctic tundra and the arrow-grass growing in arctic marshes and supplying the major fodder for the caribou, to the cassava or manioc - the bread of the tropics - plants extraordinarily rich in nitriloside, and serving as food for man and animals, are found in abundance. All life on earth participates directly or indirectly in the chain of nitriloside metabolism. In terms of living forms, the nitrilosides appear as ubiquitous in time as they do in space. There is some evidence that life on earth commenced in conjunction with hydrogen cyanide.

A glance at the vegetation about us almost anywhere will disclose nitriloside-containing plants. The common weed and fodder, Johnson-grass, often carries 15,000 mg/kg or more of nitriloside. A similar concentration is found in Sudan-grass, Velvet grass, white clover, the Yetches, buckwheat, the millets, alfalfa or lucerne, lima beans, even some strains of green or garden peas, the quinces, all species of the passion-flower. The seeds as well as the leaves and roots of the peaches and various cherries are but a few of the natural sources of this essentially non-toxic water-soluble factor.

METABOLIC ROLE
Though the nitrilosides are plant-produced, we are interested here only in their metabolic role in the animal kingdom. We know that they account largely if not exclusively for all the thiocyanate found in the tissue and body fluids of animals. Thiocyanate is found in the serum, urine, sweat, saliva and tears of man and other mammals. Thiocyanate, as well as its natural precursor, the HCN derived from dietary nitrilosides, supply the cyanide ion for the nitrilization of the precursor of vitamin B12 (hydro[xy]cobalamin) to vitamin B12 (cyanocobalamin).

Upon hydrolysis in the intestinal tract of man or animals, the nitriloside exerts a variable antibiotic effect through the action of the freed hydrogen cyanide and, in the case of some nitrilosides such as amygdalin or dhurrin, through the antiseptic action of benzaldehyde or p-hydroxybenzaldehyde aglycone. The latter from Johnson-grass, before and after oxidation to a benzoic acid, is about 30 times more antiseptic (in terms of the phenol coefficient) than ordinary benzaldehyde or benzoic acid. It is now experimentally established that only those nitrile compounds that are hydrolyzed to free hydrogen cyanide lend themselves to the formation, through rhodanese in the presence of utilizable sulfur, of thiocyanate.

EXCRETION
After metabolism in the animal body, most of the HCN moiety is eliminated as thiocyanate in the urine with possibly some being eliminated in the feces. In man, a small percentage of the nitriloside-derived HCN may be excreted through the lungs and even in the urine. In rabbits, the administration of one nitriloside (amygdalin) has been reported as resulting in the elimination of traces of the unchanged nitriloside in the urine. Sorghum and other plants involved in cyanogenesis associated with the synthesis of nitriloside are known to emit a small percentage of free HCN.

In the case of nitrilosides with an acetone aglycone or an ethylmethyl-ketone aglycone, the ketone aglycones as well as the sugar moiety are probably fully metabolized to carbon dioxide and water with the HCN residue contributing to the production of thiocyanate, some of which may be eliminated from the body in the urine and feces with the remainder persisting as part of the normal "cyanide metabolic pool".

EVIDENCE FOR BETA-GLUCOSIDASE
IN ANIMAL TISSUES
The enzyme beta-glucosidase is found in especially high concentrations in the liver, spleen, kidney and intestinal mucosa in animals. Since HCN is eliminated as thiocyanate and since only nitriles split to free HCN can experience thiocyanate conversion by rhodanese in the presence of a source of sulfur, the fact that ingested nitrilosides increase the level of thiocyanate in the body fluids proves that they have been hydrolyzed to free HCN. This hydrolysis is enzymatically accomplished only by a beta-glucosidase.

Nitrilosides are also hydrolyzed to free HCN when injected into the peritoneal cavity of the rabbit. The fluid in this area apparently is lacking in rhodanese activity, since free HCN has been observed in the peritoneal fluid of rabbits following injections of large doses of amygdalin. Extensive studies have also been published on the hydrolysis of nitrilosides to free HCN by the rumenal microflora of sheep.

EVIDENCE FOR OCCURRENCE OF
RHODANESE IN VERTEBRATES
The detoxification of HCN as thiocyanate was first observed by S. Lang in 1894, and the enzymic aspects were first studied in 1933 by K. Lang who gave the name rhodanese to the enzyme concerned. Since thiocyanate is some hundred times or so less toxic than HCN, the rhodanese reaction is a true detoxification.

It appears that the concentration or activity of rhodanese in the tissues of animals varies directly with the normal nitriloside content of the general diet characterizing each species. The livers of rats, rabbits and cows appear to be more active than those of monkeys, men, dogs, and cats in descending order. Rhodanese activity is as widely distributed in living forms as are the nitrilosides. Both have been found in forms as diverse as fish, squid, insects and plants. The enzyme has been isolated in crystalline form by Sorbo and a substantial literature on it has developed. The action of rhodanese is highly specific. It is limited not merely to nitriles but only to those nitrilosides which surrender free HCN ions upon hydrolysis.

The administration of rhodanese has been found to protect experimental animals from doses of cyanide or its salts ten times or more in excess of normally lethal doses. The concentration of rhodanese in tissue is generally proportional to that of beta-glucosidase and always functionally in excess of the latter. Rhodanese may also appear in the absence of beta-glucosidase as in the case of the brain just as beta-glucosidase may appear in conjunction with cancer or trophoblast cells in the absence of rhodanese. The high sensitivity of cerebral tissue to hypoxia would tend in the course of natural selection to provide a high rhodanese activity against adventitious HCN and to exclude any enzymatic means by which the cyanide ion could be hydrolyzed in this area. The rationale for the occurrence of a high beta-glucosidase concentration in the absence of rhodanese in the case of trophoblast is associated with the role the trophoblast plays in hemopoiesis, especially as it concerns the nitrilization of hydrocobalamin to active vitamin B12 (cyanocobalamin).

Rhodanese, beta-glucosidase, nitrilosides and thiocyanates are found throughout the phyla of the plant and animal kingdoms from bacteria to giant trees, and from protozoa to man.

THIOCYANATES IN PLANTS
Although the normally occurring nitrilosides in plants have never been known to contribute any evidence of chronic or cumulative toxicity from the nitriloside itself nor from the derivable HCN, thiocyanates occurring in plants, notably the Cruciferae or Brassicae, have been identified with goitrogenic properties among peasant populations subsisting on large quantities of such Cruciferae as cabbage, turnips, rutabaga, brussel sprouts, kohli rabi, cauliflower, etc. grown in iodine-deficient soil. Clovers among many other legumes and grasses are rich sources of nitriloside for grazing animals. Recently ewes grazing on nitriloside-rich clover growing in Australian soil deficient in iodine were reported as showing a high incidence of goiter which was identified as apparently arising from the thiocyanate derived from the clover nitriloside and metabolized in the presence of a severe iodine deficiency.

In soils carrying normal concentrations of iodine, no such effects have been observed in sheep or cattle despite the fact that some of these animals may ingest as much as 300 grams of nitriloside a day through dry arrow-grass, Johnson-grass, clovers, or other fodder.

It will also be recalled that Wilder Bancroft, Professor of Physical Chemistry at Cornell University, ingested 1,000 mg. of thiocyanate a day for a period of 23 years in the process of studying the cumulative properties of this chemical. He reported no untoward result from the experiment. To the contrary, he associated it with some suspected positive benefits that need not be considered at this time.

While prolonged excessive ingestion or development of thiocyanate in the presence of a severe iodine deficiency has apparently been associated with a goitrogenic effect in both human and animal populations, there has never been anything to suggest the possibility of any cumulative toxicity arising from the cyanide ion itself.

It is apparently impossible to develop cumulative toxicity to HCN in animals. The reason for this is that the biological experience with the cyanide ion in metabolism is almost as ancient and extensive as the biological experience with water, oxygen, nitrogen, salt, or the like. All can prove fatal to animals if administered in excessive quantities or in an improper way. As a result of an almost archetypical ignorance of, or superstition towards HCN engendered by observations of the swiftness of its lethality made in days when chemistry had barely emerged as a science, a powerful cultural antipathy toward cyanide developed.

Cyanide was indiscriminately and falsely classified, because of its toxic potentiality, with protoplasmic poisons utterly foreign to the biological experience of the organism. Unfortunately, this ancient misapprehension has been perpetuated among botanists, physiologists, toxicologists and even pharmacologists. And, in their culturally induced fear or antipathy toward cyanide as a poison, they have unwittingly foreclosed adequate attention to, and study of, the critically important factors in the physiology of plants and animals. An atmosphere of pure nitrogen or pure carbon dioxide is just as lethal as one of hydrogen cyanide. The major differences among these compounds possessing almost equal biological experience are those of concentrations and rates, and none are capable of producing chronic or cumulative toxicity. As we shall study in a subsequent section, sheep have received as much as 460 mg of HCN in the course of an hour without any evidence of acute toxicity and as much as 210 mg of HCN a day for two years without any evidence of cumulative toxicity or resistance or immunity of any kind to HCN. This biological experience qualitatively parallels that for water, salt, sodium chloride and compounds with similar biological experience.

Though in our early studies on the nitrilosides we attempted because of our then limited knowledge of their basic significance in terms of biological experience to ascertain some evidence of cumulative toxicity for them, we now agree with such students of the problem as Coop and Blakely that it is impossible for compounds that have, through nutrition, been a part of the biological experience of plants, animals and man and an inherent part of his physiology since his appearance, to produce any cumulative toxic effects. Whether we are dealing with the first nitriloside to be discovered, amygdalin, or with linamarin or lotaustralin, it would seem vain to expect to find from their hydrolytic products of glucose and HCN and their aglycone of benzaldehyde or benzonic acid in the case of the first, or acetone or methylethylktone, respectively, in the case of the latter, any possibility of cumulative effect. Glucose, thiocyanate, benzoic acid, and even acetone, are components normal to the metabolic pathways of the organism, which would have to be susceptible to a development of a cumulative toxicity to itself in order to sustain one to the components which comprise the organism.

If the obvious is belabored to reductio ad absurdum, it is because even at this late date there are apparently some unacquainted with the fact that the hydrolysis in vivo of a nitriloside by one or more endogenous beta-glucosidases with the production of free HCN, detoxified as thiocyanate by the enzyme rhodanese in order to protect the organism, or sometimes left undetoxified by cells or organisms lacking or deficient in rhodanese, comprises biological phenomena that were commonplace in organisms as old as man himself. As a result of a deficient rhodanese mechanism, some organisms have been destroyed by the HCN emitted by other organisms rich in beta-glucosidase and rhodanese.

Blum & Woodring (Science, 138:513, 1962), in a paper on "Secretion of Benzaldehyde and Hydrogen Cyanide by the Millipede Pachydesmus crassicutis", describe how this large millipede, whose known distribution is limited to Louisiana and southern Mississippi, protects itself against its natural prey, the imported fire ant (Solenopsis raevissima v. richteri Forel) by secreting a mixture of benzaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide against the predator when disturbed by it. The millipede is equipped with paired glands located on eleven of the notal projections; from these glands, benzaldehyde and HCN are ejected. The water-clear secretion of Pachydesmus was collected by touching the dorsal surfaces of the notal projections with a small square of filter paper which rapidly absorbed the liquid discharge. This discharge was then analyzed by gas chromatography and infra red photospectroscopy. The major component was found to be benzaldehyde. HCN and glucose were also found together with a disaccharide which appears to be the sugar moiety of the nitriloside amygdalin. The millipede secretes its own beta-glucosidase, which hydrolyses the nitriloside in the notal glands to free HCN, benzaldehyde and sugar. While the millipede protects itself from the HCN through its endogenous rhodanese, this HCN is emitted against a predator relatively deficient in rhodanese.

David A. Jones, Department of Genetics, and John Parsons, Department of Pharmacology, Oxford University, in a paper on "Release of Hydrocyanic Acid from Crushed Tissues in All Stage of the Life-Cycle of Species of the Zygaeninae (Lepidoptera)" Nature, 193 (4810), p.52, 1962) reported that 50 crushed eggs (weight of about 50 eggs 2.6 mg - 4.0 mg) of this moth release up to 150 microgram of HCN, which HCN thus accounts for about 5 per cent of the weight of such eggs.

The foregoing examples were selected from a comprehensive body of similar data for the purpose of adumbrating the ubiquity of the biological occurrence and experience among all forms of life, not only in terms of nitriloside, but also in terms of beta-glucosidase, rhodanese, thiocyanate, and the selective susceptibility of rhodanese-deficient cells to the noxious effect of adventitious HCN. Some of the data briefly reviewed in the two papers just cited concern the occurrence of rhodanese in the parasites of the gastro-intestinal tract of animals ingesting nitriloside-rich foods. Such rhodanese is, of course, necessary as a protection against the free HCN released from the ingested nitrilosides by the beta-glucosidase produced by the intestinal flora and possibly also by the intestinal mucosa of the host.

NUTRITIONAL IMPLICATIONS
Tribes in the Karakorum of West Pakistan, the aboriginal Eskimaux, tribes of South Africa and South America living on native foods, the North American Indian in his native state, the Australian aborigines, and other native or so-called primitive peoples rely upon a diet carrying as much as 250 to 3,000 mg of nitriloside in a daily ration. All populations living close to a Neolithic level appear to be characterized dietarily by a similarly high consumption of nitriloside-rich foods.

Civilized, Westernized or Europeanized man, on the other hand, relies on a diet that probably provides an average of less than 2 mg of nitriloside a day.

It is noteworthy that no case of cancer has ever been reported among the peoples of one tribe in the Karakorums over a period of about 60 years of medical observation. For a period of at least 80 years the Eskimaux have been observed with even greater scrutiny by medical men, missionaries, teachers, traders and others for the specific purpose of attempting to discover the possible incidence of cancer among them. Despite such observations, no case of cancer has yet been reported among these two native populations while they lived on their native diet; however, in the case of the Eskimaux, a number of cancer victims have been found among those who left their original dietary habits for a Westernized diet.

The medical scrutiny by which such cancer cases were noted was no less intense than that given a large proportion of the natives not having access to modern foods.

The observations made of the Eskimaux on this subject are recorded in Vilhjalmur Stefansson's book on "CANCER: Disease of Civilization? An Anthropological and Historical Study" (Hill and Wang, N.Y. 1960). Philip R. White, M.D., has written an interesting preface to the book, while Rene Dubos' introductory chapter is most instructive.

The remarkable freedom primitive populations show to dental caries is, of course, a commonplace to students of anthropology. Many of the nutritional reasons for such freedom from caries among these people are not difficult to find in terms of the food that they eat, and especially of the food that they do not eat. In the similar freedom of these populations from cancer, the possible role of nutrition has been at best vague and general - as it was in the case of pellagra and the anemias prior to the discovery of the specific factor involved in the deficiency.

Major General Sir Robert McCarrison, before and during his appointment as Director of Nutrition Research in India under the Research Fund Association, treated and studied the people of Karakorum. From the perspective of 20 years of observation he reported that he had failed to find a single case of cancer among this population. Later John Clark, M.D. served in a medical mission to this population. He was properly critical of the tendency of some to romanticize the allegedly perfect health of these long-lived people. He described, as had McCarrison, a relatively high incidence of goiter among these people as well as certain skin diseases and a substantial incidence of dental caries. The nutritional basis for the high incidence of goiter among them is clear in the relative iodine deficiency of their diet. Their incidence of dental caries likewise has a clear nutritional basis. The tendency to goiter though resting on an iodine deficiency is exacerbated by the presence in their diet of an abundant quantity of nitriloside, which contributes a corresponding quantity of thiocyanate that, in the absence of adequate iodine, is goitrogenic, as we have seen in the case of human populations eating vegetables of the thiocyanate-rich Cruciferae, grown in areas deficient in iodine or in the case of ewes grazing on nitriloside-rich (i.e., thiocyanate-producing) clover grown in iodine deficient soil.

At any rate, John Clark, while recognizing and describing the many pathological conditions to which these people, like all others, are subject, did add that he, too, had never observed a single case of cancer among them.

While cancer may elude diagnosis in some cases, early cases ultimately become terminal cases, and when the latter involve the skin, breast, the lymphatic glands, mouth, tongue, lungs, or rectum, they do not go unrecognized even by the medically naïve - certainly not by medical observers.

Dietary Sources for Nitrilosides
by Ernst T. Krebs, Jr.

KARAKORUM TRIBE
A number of reliable works have reported the general diet of the people of the Karakorum. Buckwheat peas, broad beans, lucerne, turnips, lettuce, sprouting pulse or gram, apricots with their seeds, cherries and cherry seeds, berries of various sorts - these are among the seemingly commonplace foods that comprise the bulk of the diet of these people. With the exception of lettuce and turnips, each of these plants contains some nitriloside. Turnips contain thiocyanate, a substance to which nitrilosides give rise.

Over a dozen books and articles we have read on these people are unanimous in the report that the apricot is the major staple in their diet. In view of our work on the nitrilosides in relation to human cancer, the predominance of the apricot in the nutrition of these reportedly cancer-free people was frequently called to our attention over the years. We originally dismissed the matter on the basis of pure coincidence, especially since the meat or flesh of the apricot contains little or no nitriloside, which is concentrated in the seed that resides in the pit. The seed is the size of a small almond and may be mistaken for a shelled almond.

Finally, upon investigating the diet of these people, we found that the seed of the apricot was prized as a delicacy and that every part of the apricot was utilized. We found that the major source of fats used for cooking was the apricot seed, and that the apricot oil was so produced as inadvertently to admit a fair concentration of nitriloside or traces of cyanide into it. The apricot seed is so prized among these people that there are experts chosen among them for the purpose of testing the seeds of new apricot trees for their bitterness, since occasionally there appears strains that produce apricot seeds carrying extraordinary concentrations of nitriloside and beta-glucosidase. These trees are destroyed.

The peoples of the Karakorum share with most western scientists an ignorance of the chemistry, toxicology and physiology of the nitrilosides and nitriles. Empirically, however, they have apparently discovered the value of these factors to nutrition. They prepare a solution of HCN (prussic acid) by allowing the apricot kernel nitriloside to react, in the presence of a little water added to defatted meal, with the endogenous beta-glucosidase (emulsin) to release free HCN. The resulting solution of HCN is then maintained as a form of bitters that is added drop-wise, because of its recognized toxicity, to wines immediately before they are drunk. It is held that this solution is contributory to health and even longevity.

THE ESKIMAUX
The diet of the Karakorum is of necessity essentially a vegetable diet; that of the Eskimaux is essentially a meat diet. Superficially no two diets could probably appear more divergent; yet the Eskimaux shares with many other primitive peoples, most of whom are dominantly vegetarian, a remarkable freedom from malignant disease. On this basis we were at first inclined to dismiss the high concentration of nitrilosides in the diet of Karakorum people and others relying mainly on plant foods as simply another coincidence, contradicted by the situation among the meat-eating Eskimaux.

Upon further investigation of the Eskimaux diet we found that one berry grew abundantly in the Arctic areas and that this berry is extraordinarily rich in nitriloside. This is the salmon-berry, cloud-berry, or buffalo-berry (Rubus spectabilis). It is eaten by birds, animals and men. It is also incorporated into pemmican, which is eaten during all seasons of the year. It was noted also that animals such as the caribou are important in the diet of these people. In eating the caribou, the frozen contents of the rumen or paunch are utilized as a salad and considered a delicacy. In view of this we investigated the forage upon which the caribou feeds. Among the grasses that grow in Arctic marshes, arrow-grass (Triglochin maritima) is very common. Studies made by the United States Department of Agriculture on the nitriloside content of arrow-grass (Triglochin maritima) show it to be probably richer in nitrilosides than any common grass. On a dry weight basis, one kilogram of arrow-grass was found to contain over 30,000 milligrams of nitriloside. One teaspoonful of such rumenal salad might be expected to carry 100 mg or more of nitriloside. This nitriloside is p-hydroxymandelonitrile-beta-glucoside; whereas the dominant one among the Karakorum is 1-mandelonitrile-beta-diglucoside, though both nitrilosides occur in the diet of both groups.

A quick glance at native populations in tropical areas, such as South America and South Africa, discloses a great abundance of nitriloside-containing foods. Over one-third of all plants in these areas contain nitrilosides. Cassava or manioc, sometimes described as "the bread of the tropics", is one of the most common as well as richest sources of nitriloside. As eaten by primitive populations, the bitter and nitriloside-rich manioc is preferred. People in the cities on Westernized diets favor the sweet cassava. Even in the case of these the cassava is so processed as to eliminate virtually all nitriloside or nitrile ions. The cassava eaten by those still near a Stone Age culture, on the other hand, retains a large quantity of nitriloside and nitrile ions. When these primitive and relatively cancer-free people move to the cities, the incidence of cancer among them rises, as they assume the nitriloside-free, Westernized diet. Like the rest of civilized mankind, they then show a cancer incidence of one in every three or four individuals if they live for a sufficiently long period.

RELATIVE FREEDOM OF SHEEP, GOATS,
AND WILD HERBIVORES FROM CANCER
The relative freedom of wild and most domestic herbivores from cancer, as contrasted to its higher incidence among at least domesticated carnivores, has been the subject of considerable attention. The nitriloside content of much pasturage, fodder and silage is, of course, often striking. White clover (Trifolium repens), alfalfa or lucerne (Medicago sativa), vetch, certain millets, Johnson-grass, Sudan-grass, Arrow-grass, the various sorghums, lupines, broad beans, velvet grass, and least 80 other grasses, the leaves of Rosacae, berries, etc. - all are common and often rich sources of nitrilosides. The two most common of the pasture grasses, Johnson and Sudan, in many parts of the United States carry as much as 15,000 to 20,000 mgs of nitrilosides per kilogram of dry grass. A 10 kilogram ration a day is not uncommon for freely grazing animals. Such a ration would supply from 150 to 200 grams of nitriloside a day, which would upon hydrolysis yield over 10,000 mg of free hydrogen cyanide. As studies on fistulated sheep have proven, over 95 per cent of all nitrilosides ingested by herbivores in plant foods are hydrolyzed within about an hour with the release of the free HCN into the organism.

Domesticated horses, however, may be deprived of a variety of plant foods and be limited more or less to fodder completely deficient in nitriloside. In such animals the incidence of cancer appears to be reasonably high, though no formal statistics are obviously available.

WILD CARNIVORES
Carnivorous animals in their natural state treat animal food similarly to the Eskimaux of a Stone Age culture. Such animals eat the viscera, especially the rumen, and often do so before eating the muscle tissue of the animal. When carnivorous animals are domesticated as pets or maintained in zoological gardens, they often show a relatively high incidence of cancer. For example, in the great San Diego Zoo 5 bears have died in one grotto in the last 6 years. All have died from cancer of the liver. These bears were maintained on a diet almost completely free from nitrilosides. Many speculations were advanced as to the cause of their malignancy, all explanations or suggestions sharing in common a version of the virus theory of cancer. These speculations are reminiscent of those made by Sir William Osler in 1906 on the etiology of pellagra as he studied a report of about 20 per cent of the population of an asylum for the colored insane dying from pellagra during one winter. To Osler this was almost conclusive evidence for the infectious or viral or bacterial origin of pellagra.

The liver cancer, which killed the captive bears in San Diego, is suggestive of the liver cancer which kills 95 per cent of all Bantus who die from cancer in the hospitals of one area of South Africa. In their native state, liver cancer is virtually unknown among these people. When they migrate to urban areas or to the mines, their diet is changed to one consisting, for economic reasons, almost exclusively of low-grade carbohydrates completely devoid of nitrilosides. A staple of this diet is fermented milk and corn meal in a mixture known as mealie meal. When this ration was fed for a prolonged period to rats, most of the rats developed cirrhosis of the liver and the pre-cancerous changes observed in the male Bantus.

Bears in the wild state eat nitriloside-rich berries, such as choke berries, salmon berries; grasses also rich in this factor; wild fruits - apricots, peaches, apples, cherries, plums - the seeds of which are all rich in nitriloside with often the leaves and roots carrying a high concentration of the factor; and barks, roots, twigs, and flowering plants rich in nitriloside. Since bears are omnivores, they also eat game. Peter Krott, Ph.D. in his "Bears in the Family", (E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., N.Y., 1962) describes the predatory habits of the bear as follows:

"Isolated footmarks showed the shepherds where to go and it was not long before they found the remains of the sheep in the undergrowth. The body was carefully cleaned out - a butcher could not have done better. While we roasted a leg of mutton I asked the men why they did not leave the carcass in place, as the bear would surely return to finish it."

The significance of the rumenal contents of sheep in terms of nitrilosides and nitrates will become increasingly clear in the next section. The nutritional pattern in civilized man, as well as in omnivores in captivity, is reversed from what obtains in nature: the viscera is largely discarded and that which animals in the wild state treat as second rate is utilized to the exclusion of a rich source of nitrilosides.

Krott also reported the fondness of bears for whole cherries. He describes feeding two bear cubs 20 pounds of cherries. Like all the non-human primates and most primitive men, the bears eat the seeds as well as the meat of cherries.

Cancer is generally considered a chronic disease. So far no chronic or metabolic disease has ever found prophylactic or therapeutic resolution except through normally occurring accessory food factors. Certainly none has ever been known to have a viral or bacterial etiology. Pellagra, scurvy, beri-beri, rickets, the anemias, a wide range of neuropathies, etc., etc. - all have found total prophylactic and therapeutic resolution only in factors accessory to normal food. No chronic or metabolic disease has found any other resolution. It is not probable that cancer will prove the first exception.

© Copyright 2003 Phillip Day
Extracted from B17 Metabolic Therapy

Further resources:
The ABC's of Disease by Phillip Day
Cancer: Why We're Still Dying to Know the Truth… by Phillip Day
Health Wars by Phillip Day
Great News on Cancer in the 21st Century by Steven Ransom
B17 Metabolic Therapy compiled by Phillip Day

Mammography - More Problems

False Positive Rate High
The false positive rate of mammograms, those patients without cancer but with a positive finding on testing, turns out to be another problem. Only one biopsy in six was found to be positive for cancer when done on the basis of a positive mammogram or breast examination. The combined false positive rate was determined to be as high as 89 percent. Identifying and performing biopsies on these clinically insignificant lesions represents over-diagnosis and over-treatment. Further, the physical and psychological stress associated with mammogram findings is not a small concern nor are the additional costs.

Too Many Mammograms Performed?
Recent data from the University of Washington and Harvard University reveals that over a period of a single decade, one out of every two women will have a false positive result as the result of mammography, and of those, nearly 20 percent will undergo an unnecessary breast biopsy. Contrary to what many health-related agencies advise, recent findings seem to demonstrate that too many rather than too few mammograms are performed every year in the United States. Further, estimates show that for every $100 spent on the cost of mammograms, $33 goes to the unproductive and unnecessary expense of false positive results.
RedFlags Weekly

CTM COMMENT: Whilst the above report contains a good deal of factual information on the pitfalls of conventional breast cancer diagnosis, the reader will soon become aware that the author of the report has little idea on the benefits of nutrition in the fight against cancer. That a conventionally-trained doctor can highlight such weaknesses in the conventional system is only half the battle. The more difficult element in the real cancer war is awakening the cancer doctor to the fact that almost all of his teaching on cancer has been thinly-veiled pharmaceutical propaganda and that positive solutions to cancer treatment are found in natural, non-toxic, nutritional protocols.

A special section on mammograms, their dangers and the safe alternatives, will be contained in the next issue. For more information now, please see the following resources.

Further Resources:
Great News on Cancer in the 21st Century by Steven Ransom
Cancer: Why We're Still Dying to Know the Truth by Phillip Day

A Suicide Side-Effect?
What parents aren't being told
about their kids' anti-depressants

For 16-year-old Angela Reich, 2002 was a year of hell. First, the Palo Alto teenager was diagnosed with a rare form of highly aggressive cancer. Then she went through months of debilitating chemotherapy that made her nauseous, caused her hair to fall out and kept her in bed for much of her last year of high school. She handled it all with unflappable poise and good humour until it seemed she was out of the woods. But the worst began when she started taking the antidepressant Paxil.

"Angela had been just pushing through and pushing through," says her mother, Sara. "She mustered all her strength and courage to face the chemo and to be sick all the time." By the end of the summer, with the most intense part of her treatment behind her, she was worn out and discouraged. "She started to feel overwhelmed and depressed."

She began seeing a therapist and talked openly about her feelings. But after a few weeks her depression had not lifted, and Angela asked about going on antidepressants.

It took six weeks for the Reich's insurance company to approve a psychiatrist, and by then Angela was in a deep funk. "She was not wanting to get out of bed in the morning," Reich recalls. "She couldn't do her homework. She said it felt terrible to live like this, but then she would say, 'I don't want to die, I don't want to hurt myself.' I remember sitting across from her at the kitchen table and tears pouring from her eyes and her saying 'This is so hard.' "
The psychiatrist prescribed Paxil, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) similar to its famous predecessor, Prozac. On a dose of 5, then 10, then 15 milligrams a day, Angela soon started feeling better. Five weeks after she began taking the medication, Angela and her mother met with the psychiatrist, who suggested another boost in dosage. "He said she's doing well now; she could be doing even better on 20 milligrams," Reich remembers. She was hesitant, but Angela wanted her old life back and thought it made sense to try. The next day, she started on the higher dose.

Restless Legs, Sleepless Nights
Within days, Reich says, her daughter was acting strangely. The first change was Angela couldn't keep her leg still. "She'd be sitting in a chair and her knee would be jerking up and down." She became irritable and had more trouble sleeping. Her parents would ask about her restless, jerking leg and she would snap at them to leave her alone.

When Reich left on a business trip, Angela called her three or four times a day and begged her to come home early. When she returned, Angela "burst in my room and hugged me," Reich says. "She kept saying, 'Mommy, I'm so glad you're home.' She was scared, like she couldn't cope. She said she dreaded going to bed because she had so much trouble sleeping. She'd lay there thinking and her thoughts got darker and became unbearable."

That night, Reich shared her daughter's bed but Angela slept little and was still wound up in the morning. When her mother tried to get her ready for a piano lesson, she said she wasn't going. "She looked funny and had a weird smile on her face," Reich remembers. "I knew something was wrong. I looked around the room and saw some pill bottles. I asked if she took any pills and she said 'Yes.' "

Under questioning, Angela told her mother she had taken four tablets of the sleeping pill Ativan. Then Angela ran to the bathroom, locked the door, and started going through pill bottles. Her father, Jim, smashed the door open and snatched a bottle of Benadryl from her hands. She ran to her purse, seized a bottle of Tylenol and began shoving pills in her mouth. Her mother grabbed her, pinned her arms, and marched her to the car, as Angela's younger brother watched.

Reich drove straight to a nearby hospital. One block from the house, Angela turned to her mother. "She said 'Mom, I don't know why I did that. It was like something took me over.' And I said 'I know, it wasn't like you. But I will keep you safe.' "

At the emergency room, the staff administered charcoal to absorb the drugs, then transferred Angela to a psychiatric hospital. The next day, the hospital psychiatrist called Reich. "He told me it was a drug-induced suicide attempt," she said, related to the increased dosage of Paxil.
Neither Angela, Sara nor her husband, Jim, an internal medicine doctor, knew Paxil might carry a risk of triggering suicidal thoughts or actions. Aside from a generic statement that depressed people are more likely to attempt suicide, there is no mention of such a risk in Paxil's prescribing information.

England Acts, United States Follows
The risk Paxil may pose to children and teenagers burst into the news this summer, when British regulators issued a warning urging doctors not to prescribe the drug to children. They were acting on new data presented to United States and British authorities showing that among 1,100 children enrolled in clinical trials of Paxil, those taking the drug were nearly three times as likely to consider or attempt suicide as children taking placebos. "There is an increase in the rate of self-harm and potentially suicidal behavior in this age group," said a statement from the British Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). "It has become clear that the benefits (of Paxil) in children for the treatment of depressive illness do not outweigh these risks."

Nine days later, the FDA issued a similar warning and announced that it would conduct a detailed review of pediatric trials of Paxil, a review soon broadened to include seven other antidepressants, including top sellers Prozac, Zoloft and Effexor. In August, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals warned doctors that its drug, Effexor, triggered hostile behavior or suicidal thinking in children at twice the rate as the sugar pills taken as placebos.

Then, last month, the MHRA announced that it was urging doctors to stop prescribing a group of six antidepressants, including Paxil, Zoloft and Effexor because they caused an increase in suicidal thoughts and actions. "These products should not be prescribed as new therapy for patients under 18 years of age with depressive illness," wrote Gordon Duff, chairman of the MHRA's Committee on Safety of Medicines, in a "Dear colleague" letter to British physicians.

Prozac, the only SSRI approved for use in depressed children, was not included in the new warning. The British review did not find a significant increase in the risk of suicide-related events among children taking the drug.

The British and American warnings were a stunning turnaround that left thousands of parents whose children are using the drugs wondering whether their children were at risk. But it was also long-sought vindication for a small group of researchers, family members and lawyers who have been arguing for years that antidepressants cause some people to become violently unhinged. They say they've been frustrated in getting this word out to the public, in large part because of the FDA's unwillingness to confront and control the drugmakers.

The FDA's warning about a possible suicide risk from Paxil left Sara and Jim Reich feeling furious, betrayed, and ready to sue. "Had I known there was a threefold increased risk of suicide among kids taking Paxil, I would not have allowed my daughter to go on that drug," said Jim. In fact, Jim has prescribed the drug himself and is outraged that the Physician's Desk Reference, or PDR - the drug bible for doctors, based on FDA-approved prescribing information - says nothing about Paxil's suicide risk.

Berkeley-based writer Rob Waters' articles have appeared in Health, Parenting, and the Los Angeles Times. He is the co-author of "From Boys to Men: A Woman's Guide to the Health of Husbands, Partners, Sons, Fathers, and Brothers," which will be released in April.
*Names and identifying details have been changed

PHILLIP DAY'S COMMENT: The baleful effects of psychiatry are once again highlighted in our pages. When I compiled my award-winning book The Mind Game, I was simply appalled at the extent to which this pseudo-science has blotted and plagued so many lives. Today, from the rock-star and film icon down to the average Joe in the street, this industry has been pushing us drugs, telling us what we can and cannot think and say, and destroyed the very concepts of right and wrong in our society. Find out how these people gained so much power over us, from the school playground to the despatch box in the House of Commons, and learn what you can do to stop it.

Company 'Held Back' Data on Drug for Children
by Sarah Boseley

The British manufacturers of an antidepressant drug that was last year banned from use in children knew as long ago as 1998 that it did not work and deliberately avoided publishing the full data because of the risk to their lucrative adult market, according to a leaked internal document.

A position paper dated October 1998 shows that managers at SmithKline Beecham - now GlaxoSmithKline - were concerned at the commercial implications of two clinical trials in which their drug Seroxat was given to children and adolescents with major depression.

The results of both trials, known as protocols 329 and 377, showed that the drug was no better than a placebo - an inert pill - in alleviating the children's depression. An internal unit at the drug company called the Central Medical Affairs team prepared a strategy.

The target, says the document - leaked to the BBC's Panorama team, which has made two programmes on Seroxat - was "to effectively manage the dissemination of these data in order to minimise any potential negative commercial impact". About 500,000 adults were at the time taking the drug in the UK. Seroxat was licensed for their use, but not for use in children. Even so, some 8,000 to 10,000 children were also on it because doctors can prescribe an unlicensed drug on their own responsibility.

The paper says that following consultations within the company, SmithKline Beecham would not submit any data to the regulators to get a statement on the efficacy or the safety of the drug. It says: "It would be commercially unacceptable to include a statement that efficacy had not been demonstrated, as this would undermine the profile of paroxetine [Seroxat]." It adds, however, that "positive data" from the first and bigger study, protocol 329, would be published in abstract form at a psychiatric meeting the following month and that a full manuscript of the trial "will be progressed".

It was eventually published in July 2001 with the conclusion: "Paroxetine is generally well tolerated and effective for major depression in adolescents."

It was only last spring, after Glaxo submitted the full data from protocols 329 and 377, together with a third study of depressed children on Seroxat and data from trials of the drug in children with obsessive compulsive disorder and social anxiety disorder, that the UK regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), realised that not only was Seroxat ineffective in children but that a bigger proportion of those taking it in the trials thought about killing themselves than among those on placebo. The drug was then banned.

Yesterday Alastair Benbow, GSK's head of European clinical psychiatry, said the document "draws inappropriate conclusions and it is inconsistent with the facts".

He insisted that there was no sign of a suicide problem until all the trials were put together.

Richard Brook, the chief executive of Mind, the UK organisation for mental health and a member of the Seroxat review panel convened by the MHRA, said he was appalled by the revelations in the leaked document. To allow the drug to be given to children when there were known side-effects and it could not be proven to work was "morally and ethically bankrupt", he said.
Guardian, 3rd February 2004

Further Resources:
The Mind Game by Phillip Day
The ABC's of Disease by Phillip Day

Doctors Agree - Big Macs Bad for Liver

How 30 days of Big Macs gave
man super-size health woes

Last February, Morgan Spurlock decided to become a gastronomical guinea pig. His mission: To eat three meals a day for 30 days at McDonald's and document the impact on his health.

Scores of cheeseburgers, hundreds of fries and dozens of chocolate shakes later, the formerly strapping 6-foot-2 New Yorker - who started out at a healthy 185 pounds - had packed on 25 pounds. But his supersized shape was the least of his problems.

Within a few days of beginning his drive-through diet, Spurlock, 33, was vomiting out the window of his car, and doctors who examined him were shocked at how rapidly Spurlock's entire body deteriorated.

"It was really crazy - my body basically fell apart over the course of 30 days," Spurlock told The Post.

His liver became toxic, his cholesterol shot up from a low 165 to 230, his libido flagged and he suffered headaches and depression.

Spurlock charted his journey from fit to flab in a tongue-in-cheek documentary, which he has taken to the Sundance Film Festival with the hopes of getting a distribution deal.

'Super-Size Me' explores the obesity epidemic that plagues America today - a sort of 'Bowling for Columbine' for fast food.

As well as documenting his own burger-fueled bulk-up, Spurlock travels to 20 cities across America, interviewing people on the street, health experts and a lobbyist for the fast-food industry.

Despite making dozens of phone calls, Spurlock fails to get anyone from McDonald's to agree to an on-camera interview.

A spokeswoman for McDonald's told The Post yesterday that no representatives from the corporation had seen 'Super-Size Me.'

"Consumers can achieve balance in their daily dining decisions by choosing from our array of quality offerings and range of portion sizes to meet their taste and nutrition goals," McDonald's said in a statement.

Over the course of the film, Spurlock is regularly examined by a gastroenterologist, a cardiologist and Soho-based general practitioner Dr. Daryl Isaacs.

"He was an extremely healthy person who got very sick eating this McDonald's diet," Dr. Isaacs told The Post. "None of us imagined he could deteriorate this badly - he looked terrible. The liver test was the most shocking thing - it became very, very abnormal."

Spurlock has since returned to normal health. "The treatment was to just stop doing what he was doing," Dr. Isaacs says.

Spurlock, who says he ate at McDonald's only sporadically before his total immersion in the Mickey D's menu, says he even began craving fat and sugar fixes between meals.

"I got desperately ill," he says. "My face was splotchy and I had this huge gut, which I've never had in my life. My knees started to hurt from the extra weight coming on so quickly. It was amazing - and really frightening."

Spurlock's girlfriend, Alex Jamieson, was horrified - she's a vegan chef.

"She was completely disgusted by me, not happy at all," he says. "But she realized what my goals were in trying to educate people."

Spurlock, a film producer who grew up in West Virginia and studied ballet for eight years, was spurred to make his first feature film while watching TV on Thanksgiving Day, 2002.

"I was feeling like a typical American on Thanksgiving - very bloated and happy on the couch - and at some point on the news they were talking about two women who were suing McDonald's. People from the food industry were saying, "You can't link kids being fat to our food - our food is nutritious." I said, "How nutritious is it really? Let's find out."

Not surprisingly, Spurlock has steered clear of the Golden Arches since filming wrapped.

"I have not had McDonald's for seven months, but yesterday, during an interview, I had a bite of a Big Mac," he says. "I chewed it up, swallowed it and I said, You know what, I'm pretty much done after that bite."
Megan Lehmann, New York Post, 22nd January 2004

CTM COMMENT: Perhaps the most telling statement in the above article are the words of Dr Isaacs: 'The treatment was to just stop doing what he was doing.' How about that for a doctor giving nutritional advice to his patient? For the full CTM treatment on food and what to do if you are caught in the fun-buns trap, please see the resources below.

US Government Influenced by Sugar Industry

The Bush administration has been putting the interests of businesses, particularly the sugar industry, ahead of the global fight against obesity.

Since 1990, successive U.S. governments have blocked the World Health Organization's (WHO) call for action to reduce the national recommendation of sugar consumption from 25 percent to 10 percent. The Bush administration, which receives millions of dollars in funding from the sugar industry, argues that there is little evidence to prove that consuming too much sugar is a direct cause of obesity. The president believes fighting fat is a matter of the individual, not the state, and opposes WHO's recommendation to reduce sugar consumption to 10 percent.

In response to the Bush Administration's statement, the leader of WHO fought back with a worldwide policy that proposes changes to advertising and tax policy to promote healthier diets. At this time, it is said that further discussions would be needed before a final plan is approved.

One in three Americans suffer from the health risks that are linked with obesity. It is estimated that 300 million people worldwide are obese, and 750 million are overweight. Statistics show obesity rates have risen 50 percent in American children. Obesity has been proven to increase the risk of heart disease, diabetes and other chronic illness.
BBC News, 21st January 2004

PHILLIP DAY'S COMMENT: In my book Health Wars, I have a special chapter devoted to the damage sugar and high-glycaemic foods can do to the body. Obesity is now such a problem in the US, GB, Canada and Australasia that pressure must be brought to bear on the media and government alike to educate the population on the dangers. I am not at all surprised by the massive sugar lobby's success with G W Bush, a man whose capacity for self-aggrandisement and nest-feathering is Herculean. Perhaps another reason for attacking the very core of politicians' power when there is so much at stake might be to let the apathetic multitudes know directly there is so much they can do to avoid keeling over in the shopping mall and spending the remainder of their fore-shortened lives sucking on a ventilator. In the end, from your body's biochemical standpoint, there are no choices. Eat wrong, die badly. Eat well, see your grandkids grow up.

Further Resources:
Health Wars by Phillip Day
Wake up to Health in the 21st Century by Steven Ransom
Food for Thought by Phillip Day

Deliver Those You Cannot Heal!
(Germany descends into the abyss)
by Phillip Day

"I am sure it would be sensible to restrict as much as possible the work of these gentlemen [psychiatrists], who are capable of doing an immense amount of harm with what may very easily degenerate into charlatanry." - Winston Churchill, December 1942

"Since sterilisation is the only sure thing to prevent further transmission of mental illness and serious hereditary afflictions, it must therefore be viewed as an act of charity and precaution for the upcoming generation." - Prof. Ernst Rüdin, Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Psychiatry, Munich, Germany, 1936

"We should make a law which helps nature have its way. Nature would let a creature which is not equipped starve to death. It would be more humane for us to give it a painless, mercy killing. This is the only option which is proper in such cases and it is a hundred times more noble, decent and humane than the cowardice that hides behind the idiocy of humanitarianism and which burdens both the creature with its own existence, and the family and the society with the burden of supporting it." - Das Schwarze Korps (The Black Corps), 18th March 1937

No more stark and frightening insight into the marriage of eugenics with Nazism can be provided than the above Black Corps declaration, which illustrates the deadly intent of Hitler's National Socialists to implement their policies to 'cleanse' Germany of its undesirables. And psychiatry is deemed the 'science' that has the expertise and will to determine who is undesirable in this Germany of the future. Thus it is psychiatry which must play the defining role in spearheading the selection of these undesirables for processing under the laws which will soon be drafted. Clearly, the measures that will follow - measures forever seared into the Post-War collective conscience of a horrified world citizenry - cannot, by any grotesque manipulation of the imagination, be categorised as 'a hundred times more noble, decent and humane'.

As we have already learned, the path to the gas chambers can be clearly traced back to the attitudes and bogus science propagated decades before. And it is through the process of gradualism that the 'sophisticated' public's perceptions of man and his place in the cosmos endure a quantum shift, to the point where the unthinkable eventually becomes thinkable.

NOT JUST NAZI GERMANY
Insanity initially was frowned upon and locked away from the general public where it was monitored by those in charge. Later, 'mental disorders', and those exhibiting the growing list of them, became Kraepelin's 'heavy burden for our nation'. The evolutionary beliefs of Darwin, Lyell and Galton formed the bedrock for the eugenics movement with its desire to 'perfect evolution' by breeding out 'undesirable traits', and 'feeble-mindedness' in different races. By 1914, mental illness was professionally regarded as 'hereditary', when the American Medico-Psychological Association (later the modern-day American Psychiatric Association) stated that "… a radical cure of the evils incident to the dependent mentally defective classes would be effected if every feeble-minded person, every imbecile, every habitual criminal, every manifestly weak-minded person, and every confirmed inebriate were sterilised."

It is important and fair to appreciate that these beliefs were not wholly restricted to those of the burgeoning German psychiatric community. They were also held by many 'forward-thinkers' elsewhere. Lewis M Terman, professor of psychology at Stanford University, USA, believed in 1916 that "…if we would preserve our state for a class of people worthy to possess it, we must prevent, as far as possible, the propagation [breeding] of mental degenerates."

Houston Stewart Chamberlain, born in Britain in 1855, married the daughter of composer Robert Wagner and became a German citizen in 1916. Chamberlain's works lionised Aryan world philosophy, denigrated Jewish influence as negative and inferior, and promoted German supremacy. Chamberlain's élitist views are clear when he remarks that "…moderate talent… is frequently the character of bastards; one can easily observe this daily in cities where, as in Vienna, the various peoples meet each other; at the same time one can also notice a particular laxity, a lack of character, in short, the moral degeneration of such people."

A young Adolf Hitler would echo these same sentiments in 1925: "…those who are physically and mentally unhealthy must not perpetuate their suffering in the body of their children." By 1933, after the Nazis come to power, Hitler is busying himself with the implementation of legislation entitled The Nazi Act for Averting Descendants Afflicted with Hereditary Diseases. Within six years, 375,000 forced sterilisations are carried out. Even the physically 'unfit' are not exempt.

Psychiatrist Ernst Rüdin is the catalyst and organiser of the operational phase of the Nazis' eugenics policy. With the scientific credibility of his professorship at Munich University to drape his acts with the requisite legitimacy, Rüdin is fêted for his fidelity and unswerving loyalty to the Reich. Upon his sixty-fifth birthday, the Munich psychiatrist is honoured for having "…just recently received the Goethe Medal for the Art and Science from the Führer 'in recognition of his achievements in the development of German Racial Hygiene'." Fellow racial hygiene advocate Dr Alfred Ploetz continues at the festivities to announce that "…the Reichminister of the Interior, Dr Frick, sent him [Rüdin] the following telegram: 'To the indefatigable champion of racial hygiene and meritorious pioneer of the racial hygiene measures of the Third Reich, I send my sincerest congratulations on his 65th birthday'."

EUTHANASIA
The concept of sterilisation is soon to have another sinister bedfellow: euthanasia. The murder of those whose lives are deemed Devoid of Human Value commences with a landmark episode in 1938. Dr Werner Catel, Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Leipzig, advises the father of a deformed child that the latter write to the Führer seeking permission to end his own child's life. In response, Hitler sends his personal physician, Professor Karl Brandt, to discuss the matter with Catel. The significance of a father requesting a mercy death for his own son fascinates the public. The child is subsequently killed.

Such an event is to have major repercussions in the realm of public psychodrama now the state has sanctioned euthanasia:

"A group of physicians was called to the Reich Chancellory to form a Euthanasia Committee. Dr Herbert Linden, psychiatrist and ministerial advisor for health in the Reich Ministry, was appointed its director. Of the four other doctors on the committee, two were psychiatrists, including the influential Dr Werner Catel. Shortly, another seven psychiatrists were added.

In 1939, the following document was signed and released by Hitler: 'Reichleader [Philipp] Bouhler and Karl Brandt MD are charged with the responsibility of enlarging the authority of certain physicians to be designated by name in such a manner that persons who, according to human judgment, can upon most careful diagnosis of their condition of sickness, be accorded a mercy death."'

Journalist Joseph Harsch makes an important point in his analysis of the above ruling by Hitler:

"Those who proposed [the plan for euthanasia] are understood to have asked Hitler for a written edict or law which would officially authorise them to proceed with the 'mercy killings'. Hitler is represented as having hesitated for several weeks. Finally, doubting that Hitler would ever sign the official order, the proponents of the project drafted a letter for him to sign which merely expressed his, Hitler's general approval of the theory of euthanasia as a means of relieving incompetents of the burden of life. While this letter did not have the character of the law, it was adequate in Nazi Germany. The Führer had expressed approval of the practice. It went ahead."

EUROPE EXPLODES
Meanwhile, throughout the first seven months of 1939, the Nazi industrial dynamo was churning out weaponry, aircraft, submarines and warships. In spite of Hitler's assurances to Britain's Neville Chamberlain that England and Germany were not in danger of war, events inexorably built during the spring and summer. In the second week of August, Hitler ordered German troops to mass along the border with Poland. Late on the night of 31st August 1939, Hitler's government informed the world that Polish troops had stormed a German radio station in Upper Silesia and, after murdering the technicians there, had broadcast an appeal to the Polish people inciting them to war with Germany.

Historian Martin Gilbert reminds us of the tragic farce that followed: "No such Polish provocation had taken place. The Polish troops were Germans dressed up as Poles. The dead German - for there was indeed one - was a common criminal taken from a concentration camp and killed by his fellow Germans to give credence to the tale of a Polish attack. The incident was a crude fabrication, but in the early hours of 1st September, citing this bogus incident as the reason, Hitler ordered German troops to cross into Poland…. On 3rd September 1939, Britain and France declared war on Germany."

CLEANING UP THE HUMAN DETRITUS
By 1939, a telling documentary film is circulating Germany and its provinces, entitled 'Existence Without Life' ('Dasein ohne Leben'). Featured in the 1991 documentary 'Selling Murder', the German piece is designed to educate and influence public opinion in the controversial area of euthanasia. Wiseman states that all the latest film techniques are used to give the project every chance of success:

"The main character was a professor… used 'to add spurious scientific respectability' to the film. The documentary explains, 'The [film's] script demands that demonically mad faces arise like a spectre out of the scene.… Unedited film shows the techniques used such as sharp, underneath lighting to make the patients appear grotesque.… His [the professor's] lecture, scripted by psychiatrists.… first claims that care for the sick has become indiscriminate and too costly.'

The professor closes the movie with a dramatic appeal to all: 'We call upon a merciful destiny to liberate these regrettable creatures from their existence without life.… Allow me to close with a few purely human and personal remarks and so extend the framework of this lecture. If I knew that I - and this could happen to anyone - would be struck down by the disaster of some incurable mental illness and that such an existence without life would lie before me, I would do anything for this not to happen. I would rather die. I am convinced all healthy people think like this. But I am also convinced that every incurable mental patient or idiot, if he could recognise his position, would prefer an end to such existence. No sensible human being could deny him the right to die. Is it not the duty of those [psychiatrists] who care for the incapable - and that means total idiots and the incurable mental patients - to help them exercise their rights? Is that not a sacred demand of charity? Deliver those you cannot heal!'

T4 AND THE 'MERCY KILLINGS'
The deliverings, or 'mercy killings', of mental patients are carried out under the organisation of the infamous T4 centre , so named for its Berlin address at Tiergartenstrasse 4. According to the Nuremburg Trial transcripts, some 275,000 mental patients are murdered between 1939 and the cessation of hostilities in 1945 under Operation Gnadentod ('Operation Mercy Killing'). Even before the killing centres have been properly set up and tested, psychiatrists are rounding up mentally sick patients from institutions in Meseritz, Pomerania (Poland) and shipping them into the forests. Here they are executed by SS firing squads and buried. Later in the war, these bodies, some 3,500 of them, are hastily exhumed and burned by the SS to prevent their discovery by the approaching Russian Army.

Two of the first killing facilities are set up at Castle Grafeneck and Brandenburg by T4, under control of 'politically reliable' psychiatrists, doctors, nurses and orderlies who oversee the murders. Psychiatrist Werner Heyde moves from Würzburg to Berlin to head up T4. Heyde's job is to oversee the Reich's euthanasia program and supervise its consulting staff of approximately 30 physicians, most of whom are psychiatrists. The T4 psychiatric team will 'evaluate' patients and decide on their fate. The Los Angeles Daily News agrees that the first medical killings of mental patients in Germany were to pave the way for mass murder in the years to follow:

"The systematic 'treatment' of Jews under T4 began in April 1940, with a proclamation from the Reich Interior Ministry that within three weeks all Jewish [mental] patients were to be registered. In June the first gassing of Jews took place: 200 men, women and children were killed in the Brandenburg facility; they had been transported to the killing centre in six buses from the Berlin-Buch mental institution."

The original method of murder is carbon monoxide gas. It is chosen for its obvious lethality and lack of smell. Specially constructed 'shower rooms' lure the unwary victims inside. The gas is then pumped in until all visible movement ceases. After the excess gas is extracted, the bodies are removed and taken to the nearby crematoria for incineration. Later, the appalling plumes of smoke cause many a local inhabitant to complain to the authorities. In time, the nefarious purpose of these facilities, first as rumours and then as truth, soon becomes known. By this time however, public complaints about the centres themselves become a cause for the arrest and deportation of 'troublemakers'.

Author and psychiatrist Dr Frederic Wertham describes a student tour of one of the mental facilities actively involved in the Nazis' Operation Mercy Killing: "In the fall of 1939, a group of psychology students were given a tour of the state psychiatric institution Eglfing Haar in Nazi Germany. Dr Hermann Pfannmüller, a psychiatrist and director of the institution, explained the 'euthanasia' or 'mercy killing' program that was being used on the inmates. In the children's ward, twenty-five children were being starved to death. They ranged in age from one to five years. Pfannmüller lifted up one emaciated child who was near death and told the students that food is withdrawn gradually, not all at once. 'With this child,' he said, 'it will take another two or three days.'"

Ludwig Lehner, one of the students attending that visit to Dr Pfannmüller's institution, commented in a sworn statement at Nuremburg: "I shall never forget the look of that fat, grinning fellow with the whimpering little skeleton in his fleshy hand, surrounded by the other starving children."

At first, it is the 'mental defectives' who are killed. As these 'mercy killings' proceed however, criteria for selection are steadily widened. That psychiatrists themselves are only following orders and are not actually instigators of the brutal killings is roundly refuted by surviving documentation. Psychiatrist Dr Wertham:

"It has been stated that psychiatrists were merely following a law or were being forced to obey an order. Again and again we read - as if it were historical fact - of Hitler's secret order to exterminate those suffering from severe mental defect or disease.… There was no law and no such order. The tragedy is that the psychiatrists did not have to have an order. They acted on their own. They were not carrying out a death sentence pronounced by someone else, they were the legislators who laid down the rules for deciding who was to die; they were the administrators who worked out the procedures, provided the patients and the places, and decided the methods of killing; they pronounced a sentence of life or death in every individual case; they were the executioners who carried the sentences out, or - without being coerced to do so - surrendered their patients to be killed in other institutions; they supervised and often watched the slow deaths."

By the middle of 1941, the killing of the mentally ill was well underway throughout the Reich and its conquered lands. T4 expanded the definition of those deemed 'unworthy of life' and a full training program was instigated to coach those in the skills of mass extermination. An accomplished authority on the mental health system of Nazi Germany, Dr Wertham further states:

"The 'material' for all this training was mental hospital patients. On them the methods were tried out and tested before they were later applied to Jewish and other civilian populations of the occupied countries. Technical experience first gained with killing psychiatric patients was utilised later for the destruction of millions.

Towards the end of 1941, the gas chambers in the death institutions were dismantled, transported to the east, and then freshly erected for their new tasks in concentration camps.… Some were the same psychiatrists who selected patients in hospitals, went to concentration camps and selected death candidates there. Heinrich Himmler had the idea of having the inmates of these camps examined to 'comb out' those to be eliminated. He needed suitable physicians, so the central bureau of the 'euthanasia' program [T4] supplied him with 'experienced psychiatrists'…. In 1941, a commission of five went to the concentration camp at Dachau to select prisoners to be transferred to Mauthausen to be killed. All five men were psychiatrists, and their chief was a professor of psychiatry at the University of Berlin."

BRANCHING OUT THE PROGRAM
The success of the euthanasia program, inasmuch as the public remains largely unaware of what is occurring, spurs more imaginative ways to dispose of the mentally ill. New facilities are opened in occupied Poland, equipped with 'shower rooms' and machine guns. Specialised gassing trucks are constructed and painted to look like 'Kaiser's Coffee' delivery vehicles. Carbon monoxide gas is fed from steel canisters into the interior of the vehicles while the latter drive to the disposal sites to off-load the bodies for cremation.

There is money in the killing. Questionnaires are sent in to T4 from the mental institutions for each patient to be evaluated. Psychiatric consultants, under the guidance of T4 chief Heyde, go over the questionnaires and, on the basis of the information learned, place a red mark on the form for those to be killed and blue for those to be spared. By October 1940, a psychiatrist working as a euthanasia consultant is receiving 100 marks per patient evaluation up to a total of 500 questionnaires. Bonuses are also being earned: 200 marks per evaluation up to 2,000 questionnaires, 300 marks up to 3,000 and 400 marks for all questionnaires above that.

Records show that the above-mentioned Dr Hermann Pfannmüller, for instance, completed 2,000 registration forms in only three weeks, while another, Dr Schreck, 'very conscientiously' completed 15,000 in nine months, according to his own testimony. One witness, states researcher Ernst Klee, "even worked while drinking wine in a public restaurant."

And then a strange thing happens. On 24th August 1941, Hitler calls a halt to the T4 euthanasia killings. Some say that Hitler has become politically uncomfortable as the public learns of the truth. A psychiatrist named Menneckes, involved in the euthanasia killings in the Rhenish Eichberg Institute, later, in an open session of the Eichberg proceedings on 3rd December 1946, declared:

"One day when Hitler was travelling on his special train from Munich to Berlin, it had to make a stop at a station at Hog. To find out why, he went to the window and was spotted by a crowd standing outside that had been witnessing the shipment of mentally ill patients. When the crowd saw Hitler at the window, they became irate, as they knew what would happen with the patients. This demonstration of dissatisfaction against Hitler prompted him to call off what had been going on until then."

Other surviving documents demonstrate that Hitler's policy of distancing himself from the carnage is being recognised at the bureaucratic level. One physician, giving testimony after the war, states:

"The discontinuation of the extermination program was skilfully exploited, according to a physician of the Weissengau Institute, by spreading a whisper campaign that it had happened because of Adolf Hitler, who prior to that had not been aware of the killing."

But researchers Röder, Kubillus and Burwell surmise another, perhaps more prosaic explanation for Hitler's order to cease the euthanasia killings. In their Secret Activities of the Third Reich, the authors demonstrate with research that by August 1941, T4 has actually reached its quota of 70,000 persons euthanised. In fact, it has actually exceeded its target by exactly 273 persons. The original program has accomplished its preset targets and is now being shut down. Are the Nazis merely calling in a breathing space while those in charge decide what to do next?

REINHARD HEYDRICH
By the beginning of 1942, the concept of expanding the slaughter of the mentally ill into the conquered territories to an even wider criteria of 'inferior citizens', such as Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, habitual criminals and political undesirables, is being contemplated and sanctioned by the Nazi High Command. On 20th January, Himmler's deputy, Reinhard Heydrich, convenes a meeting of 15 senior Nazi officials at a villa at the beautiful lakeside retreat of Wannsee, ostensibly to examine the options of ridding Europe of 'parasitic Jewry'.

Heydrich is Hitler's Wunderkind - an operations genius who has just been appointed 'Reich Protector' of Bohemia and Moravia in September 1941. Heydrich's career with the Nazis has been spectacular and meteoric. Having organised the entire Nazi secret police and intelligence services (SS and SD) even before his party gained power, Heydrich was trusted by the Nazis for his incredible capacity for organisation on a large scale. It was Heydrich who had removed Nazi opponents quietly and effectively to Dachau, near Munich. It was Heydrich who, by 1934, had all the political police of the Reich under his iron control. It was Heydrich who had organised four special task forces to follow Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of Russia, liquidating all Communist officials, saboteurs, agitators and Jews as the Nazis advanced. By the time the Wannsee meeting is convened, wholesale murder of the Jews in Russia has become routine. Historian Martin Gilbert tells us:

"From the first days of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the SS Special Task Forces took Jews out of their homes to the nearest wood or ravine, and shot them down. Tens of thousands of Jews were murdered in the first few weeks; hundreds of thousands in the months ahead; as many as a million by the end of the year. As the executions spread from town to town and village to village, babies and small children were thrown into the deep pits in which their parents had been shot."

In spite of the brutality of his command, there is compelling evidence that Heydrich, born in Prussian Saxony the son of a music director and minor composer, is secretly disgusted with the scale of the worst tasks he is called upon to perform. That Heydrich is not just the simple Nazi monster he is often painted to be is evident when one studies the amazing social reforms the SS-General is able to introduce into Czech society through his own initiatives. Heydrich understands that the carrot and the stick are both of use in maximising the productivity of conquered people brought under the heel of the Reich. Heydrich discovers that Czech farmers have been holding out on the true number of cattle they have registered. He orders all surplus animals to be slaughtered and the meat added to the rations of the factory workers. On Labour Day 1942, Heydrich distributes thousands of free cinema, theatre and football tickets to the working population to reward them for their hard endeavours. New national insurance cover, pension rights, new wage levels and holiday entitlements are agreed with the Czech trade unions. Ignoring the safety risks, Heydrich often tours the factories of his protectorate, telling the dumbfounded workers to their faces what an inspiration they all are - even to the Nazis.

WANNSEE - MURDER OVER CIGARS AND COGNAC
It is this complex Heydrich, part monster, part operations genius, that sits down at the conference table at the villa at Wannsee in January 1942 to discuss what is to be done permanently with the inferiors, mental degenerates, habitual criminals and the Jews across the German empire. Heydrich's mind has no moral conflict with what it has to do. The minutes of this meeting have survived and from them we can piece together a chilling montage of what was agreed and understood between the various parties attending.

Clear is the fact that Hitler himself will issue no such order sanctioning the murder of eleven million Jews, although clearly the mass exterminations which follow can never go ahead without the Führer's approval. Hitler's quandary and subsequent refusal to issue a written order for the exterminations, according to researcher Ernst Klee, appears to be centred on the fact that it is actually still illegal at this time in Nazi Germany to murder people:

"Everyone involved knows that Hitler rejects a legal ruling for political reasons."

Heydrich himself makes this expressly clear at Wannsee when some of the incredulous attendees, after hearing of Heydrich's proposal for the extermination of the Jews, timidly request the whereabouts of an official written order from the Führer. Heydrich once again pointedly reminds his audience of the need to purge Germany of undesirables. He is counting on their unanimous support to overcome the logistic problems of ceasing the propagation of 'inferior stock'.

In his book, The Villa, The Lake, The Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution, British scholar Mark Roseman uses the minutes from the infamous meeting to paint an almost unbelievable portrait of cultured men gathering in a stately, picturesque location, eating superb food, smoking cigars and sipping cognac, discussing the fate of such 'mental degenerates' as remain, along with the removal of up to 11 million Jews from European society. The meeting, conducted in cultured tones, begins with the question of deportation of undesirables. References are made to the success of the previous T4 euthanasia program.

Although the question of sterilisation is openly discussed in connection with the desire to prevent 'inferior races' from propagating, it is quite evident from the minutes that Heydrich is dissatisfied with the costs and manpower associated with extending this kind of operation. At Wannsee, we see the indomitable Heydrich presenting the top brass at Wannsee with a fait accompli with his Endlösung, his Final Solution for the Jews - a package of measures already thoroughly planned, costed down to the last detail, and bearing the Heydrich stamp of approval.

SETTING UP THE FINAL SOLUTION
There are historians who attempt to minimise Hitler's involvement in, and cogniscence of Heydrich, Eichmann and Himmler's Final Solution. But clearly, from documentation and later testimony at Nuremburg, Hitler is in the loop and always in overall command. Roseman agrees and reports that, within weeks of the meeting at Wannsee, the random massacres of 'degenerates' throughout the empire, including thousands of Russian prisoners of war falling into German hands as a result of Operation Barbarossa, give way to highly organised and documented industrial extermination.

Psychological propaganda is all-important in breaking the will of the Soviets, contemptuously regarded by leading Nazis as sub-human animals. But some Wehrmacht commanders are shocked at the savagery that has by now overtaken the soldiers under their command. On 26th June 1941, four days after the launch of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, General Lemelsen, commander of the 47th Panzer Corps, is protesting to his subordinates about the 'senseless shootings of both prisoners-of-war and civilians'. Yet the savagery on both sides continues unchecked both within the beleaguered Soviet Union as well as across occupied Europe. The world now witnesses something it has not seen before. A war between millions, not of conquest, but of annihilation.

At dinner with Himmler and Heydrich on 25th October 1941, Hitler had reminded his guests of his 'prophecy' in 1939 that a world war would result in the complete destruction of European Jewry. He added: "Let no one say to me, we cannot send them into the swamp.… It is good if our advance is preceded with fear that we will exterminate Jewry."

This is one of many examples illustrating that Hitler is sanctioning the continued murder program and aware that the SS are drowning Jewish women and children in the Pripet marshes. Just ten days after the Wannsee meeting, while Hitler is celebrating the ninth anniversary of his coming to power, he reminds a huge crowd in Berlin: "The war will not end as the Jews imagine it will, namely with the uprooting of the Aryans, but the result of this war will be the complete annihilation of the Jews."

THE WAR WIDENS
Worsening relations with America and a deteriorating war with Russia had long since caused the Nazis to abandon their original idea of sending European Jews on 'luxury ships' to any nation who would have them. And then the Japanese attack the US Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor on 7th December 1941 and pound US airfields in the Philippines. On 11th December, believing with elation that the Japanese will score a quick and easy victory over the United States, Hitler declares war on America. The Führer is relieved to receive this Japanese boost to his endeavours. Operation Barbarossa has bogged down in Russia with the record shocking winter, temperatures falling as low as -35oC. Stalingrad is the turning point in the war. Yet it is one of the overriding and tragic ironies of World War 2 that, at precisely the time when it is dawning on the more prescient of Hitler's staff that the war may already be lost, Hitler embarks upon his full-scale war on the Jews.

At Wannsee, Heydrich is speaking with the voice of Hitler. Adolf Eichmann, Heydrich's operations chief, records in his memoirs and later 1961 trial in Israel that Heydrich's proposal for genocide of the Jewish people is enthusiastically and unanimously endorsed by all attendees at Wannsee. The Wannsee protocol is specific in its evolutionary stance: any Jews surviving the attempt to work them to death for the benefit of the Reich "…will have to be dealt with appropriately, because otherwise, by natural selection, they would form the germ cell of a new Jewish revival."

THE DEATH CAMPS
Meanwhile the psychiatrists at T4 are experimenting with new, more efficient forms of annihilation. Decrying the increased costs of firing-squad ammunition and the shipping of carbon monoxide to the extermination facilities in Poland, arrangements are made for the off-the-shelf pesticide gas, Zyklon B, to be manufactured on-site by chemical giant I G Farben's subsidiary DEGESCH, an acronym for the German Corporation for Pest Control. In the purpose-built extermination facilities in Poland, the gassing of Russian prisoners of war, together with the continuous stream of victims provided by T4 psychiatrists from the KZs (concentration camps) across the empire, proceeds apace. The Polish death centres of Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka, according to reliable estimates, carry out the murders of over 1.7 million souls alone. Approximately 100 T4 psychiatrists are transferred from the Berlin headquarters to the Polish extermination sites to supervise and implement Heydrich's Final Solution. The original gas chambers are built to contain 500 people at a time. At the height of the extermination program, up to 1,500 people are herded into the rooms to prepare for what some camp guards refer to sarcastically as 'the peaceful sleep'.

Nazi psychiatrist Ernst Rüdin's racial hygiene program reaches its appalling denouement between 1942 and 1945 as further extermination facilities spring up like evil blooms across occupied Europe. Numerous eyewitness accounts testify to the brutality of Heydrich's hated SS, who preside over the genocide with ruthless efficiency:

"After the arrivals were taken to the location next to the crematorium, they had to undress entirely because they were told they would have a shower. They were then chased - often with beatings - by the SS into the so-called bath, which in reality was a gas chamber…."

" [in the dressing room of the crematorium], people's blood-stained and battered heads and faces proved that there was scarcely anyone who had been able to dodge the truncheon blows of the yard. Their faces were ashen with fear and grief.… Hope and illusions had vanished. What was left was disappointment, despair and anger.

They began to bid each other farewell. Husbands embraced their wives and children. Everybody was in tears. Mothers turned to their children and caressed them tenderly. The little ones… wept with their mothers and held on to them….

After a while, I heard the sound of piercing screams, banging against the door, and also moaning and wailing. People began to cough. Their coughing grew worse from minute to minute, a sign that the gas had started to act. Then the clamour began to subside and to change to a many-voiced dull rattle, drowned out now and then by coughing.…"

The killing continues up until the end of the war - and even beyond. On 8th May 1945, the war ends in Germany. In the camps however, the killing continues, masked by the uncontrolled chaos of a German empire in ruins. The mental institutions also appear to be functioning as before. Röder el al report:

"In the extermination institutes, they either kept on killing, or let the patients starve to death. As late as 29th May 1945, a four-year-old feeble-minded boy was murdered in Kaufbeuren, and on 7th July, a Munich newspaper made a horrifying discovery which proved that the loss of World War 2 had had no effect on the overall intentions of those who still operated the human slaughterhouses.

On 2nd July 1945, Robert E Abrahams walked into the district hospital of Kaufbeuren to find the warm, swinging body of a physician who was junior only to the director. He had hanged himself. Twelve hours earlier, the last adult had died. In Irsee, soldiers found the bodies of men and women who had died just hours earlier, most of them through starvation."

THE FINAL HOURS
As often in the tragedy of war, a retrospective look at the eventual outcome of World War 2, this most destructive conflict in human history, yields a million tragic tales of callousness, brutality, personal courage and fatal heroism. The relentless march of the Allies across Europe and the eventual fall of Berlin to the Soviets eventually end the mass killings, the aerial bombings, the artillery and tanks battles, the firing squads in the woods and forests, as well as the emotional torment of the populations previously yolked under Nazi rule. The smoke of a thousands fires, from Dresden to Hamburg, from Warsaw to Normandy, show the world the funeral pyre of German National Socialism.

Hitler kills himself with a pistol in his Berlin bunker on 30th April 1945. His mistress, Eva Braun, whom he has just married, takes poison. Hitler's propaganda and psychology chief Josef Goebbels arranges for his six children to be given a lethal injection by an SS doctor. He then has himself and his wife Madga shot by an SS orderly. The Allies frantically try to account for all the major human rights violators in the complete chaos that is Europe at the end of the Second World War.

A SPRING DAY IN PRAGUE
But SS-General Reinhard Heydrich survives only a few months after Wannsee. On 27th May 1942, the SS chief is assassinated in Prague by two British-trained Czech agents, Kubis and Gabcik, as he takes the beautiful drive from his villa at Panenske Brezany to his headquarters in the capital. As his Mercedes slows to negotiate a hairpin bend in the Prague suburbs, Kubis and Gabcik attack the vehicle with a Sten gun that jams, and a specially prepared fragmentation grenade that doesn't. Heydrich is mortally wounded, his spleen and diaphragm pierced by shrapnel as well as cloth and leather fragments from the vehicle's upholstery. Nine days later, on 4th June, Heydrich dies in agony from his wounds.

WAGNER AND PAGEANTRY
Heydrich is buried with all Nazi honours in the Veteran's Cemetery in Germany's capital. The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra plays Wagner's funeral march. Heydrich's state funeral, designed to be broadcast to the world as a great show of Nazi solidarity and power, features all the Nazi leadership and literally thousands of black-uniformed SS guarding the awesome pageantry of the procession. Hitler gives an emotional eulogy of the dead man. Himmler praises Heydrich as a "…gentleman of breeding and bearing" who had been "feared by lower racial types and sub-humans, hated and defamed by Jews and criminals."

As Heydrich's coffin, draped in the swastika, is drawn by four jet-black horses in procession towards the Veteran's Cemetery, the retaliation hundreds of miles to the south in Czechoslovakia has already begun. The Führer is beside himself with rage. Hundreds of Czechs of doubtful political allegiance are rounded up and shot. The entire village of Lidice, thought to have sheltered Heydrich's assassins at some point during their five-month preparation, has its entire male population machine-gunned and its women and children driven away to concentration camps.

The assassins are eventually tracked down to an Orthodox Church in Ressel Street, Prague. Hundreds of SS surround the building while their officers puzzle out how to finish the stand-off. Finally the pride of Heydrich's officer corps orders the Prague fire department to pump water from the River Vltava into the crypt to drown 'the vermin'. Later the bodies of the priests, assassins and collaborators are recovered. All are found to have died either fighting or having committed suicide with the last of their bullets before the water could reach them.

JUSTICE FOR ALL?
Adolf Eichmann is later tracked down by the Israeli Mossad and in 1961 is kidnapped from his hideout in South America and returned to Israel for trial. Eichmann gives his account professionally and unemotionally before the world's cameras. He is found guilty and hanged. Nazi psychiatrist Professor Paul Nitsche is sent to the guillotine on 25th March 1948 in Dresden. T4 doctor Carl Schneider, recruited by the Nazis to carry out pathology work on the brains of children gassed in the extermination institutions, is found guilty at Nuremburg and hanged. Dr Leonardo Conti, the Reich's Minister for Health from 1939 to 1945, commits suicide. Fleeing from Allied authorities, psychiatrist Dr Max de Crinis, one of the leaders of the T4 euthanasia program, practises murder even in his final hour. The Austrian physician poisons his wife and children with potassium cyanide before taking his own life in the same manner.

POSTSCRIPT
Were the war-time psychiatric abuses only attributable to the Nazis? Dr W H Kay, reviewing his military service during World War 2, later reported that he had found an American psychiatrist up to his old tricks: "Electroshock was indicated to help in the management of insane soldiers, who would become quite meek and manageable after a session with the 'thing….'"
© Copyright 2003 Phillip Day
Extracted from The Mind Game

Further Resources:
The Mind Game by Phillip Day
The ABC's of Disease by Phillip Day

Foregone Conclusions
by Richard Smith

The public is being regularly deceived by the drug trials funded by pharmaceutical companies, loaded to generate the results they need.

Drug companies spend hundreds of millions of pounds to bring a new drug to market, and tens of millions of pounds to do the clinical trials that are necessary for both registration and marketing. Understandably, they would prefer not to get results from these trials that are unfavourable to their drug. And, despite the ubiquitous uncertainties of science and medicine, they rarely do.

How do they manage it?
In 1994, Canadian researchers looked at 69 trials of anti-arthritis drugs funded by drug companies and published in prominent medical journals. In every case the drug made by the company was as good as the comparative treatment, and in a quarter of the trials it was better. Not once did a company fund a trial that proved unfavourable to it. Yet the whole scientific point of doing such trials is to answer so far unanswered questions.

Supposedly, researchers conduct trials when they are in a charmed state called "equipoise", which means they are genuinely uncertain which is the best treatment. If they think one treatment is better than another, then they shouldn't be conducting the trial.

A review published in 2003 found 30 studies that had compared the results of trials funded by drug companies with those funded from other sources. Trials funded by companies were four times more likely to have results favourable to them than those funded by others. Yet the technical quality of the trials funded by drug companies was always as good and often better than the quality of those funded by other sources.

This is not surprising, as drug company trials are tightly regulated. There are explicit high standards, and companies can afford to hire the best to conduct the trials.

How then do companies usually manage
to fund research that is favourable to them?
An answer is supplied in a recent issue of the BMJ by Dave Sackett and Andy Oxman, two tireless campaigners for the better use of scientific evidence in medicine. They have founded a spoof company called Harlot - which stands for 'How to Achieve positive Results without actually Lying to Overcome the Truth'.

They created the company after it finally dawned on them that "being good and being poor are causally related: being good doesn't pay". Harlot plc promises to give drug companies and others the results they want. Your drug may be wholly ineffective, Sackett and Oxman promise, but as long as it isn't a lot worse than a sip of triple distilled water, then Harlot can produce positive results from a trial.

Importantly, these results are not usually achieved by doing poor quality trials. The trick is in the question asked and the design of the trial. Sackett and Oxman, both experts on the design and analysis of trials, describe 13 methods for getting the results you want. One of the commonest methods is to test a new drug not against an effective treatment but against a placebo. Ironically, regulators often require companies to do this. But what matters to patients is not whether a company's drug is better than nothing, but whether it is better than established treatments.

Companies are nervous about these "head-to-head" trials, particularly if many drugs are being tested - because there may be only one winner and many losers. A huge publicly funded head-to-head trial of treatments for high blood pressure was published recently and threw companies into a tizz because it showed that long-established drugs that are off patent were better than newer, much more expensive drugs.

A company gets huge benefit from showing that its drug is better than a competitor's. But the company needs to control the trial, and Harlot suggests that a company compares its product with an inadequate dose of a competitor's product. This may have been the reason why previous trials on drugs for high blood pressure suggested that newer drugs were better.

A variant on this technique is to compare the drug with an excessive dose of the competitor's product: it is then possible to show that the company's drug has far fewer side-effects (because side-effects are more common with higher doses of a drug). This may have been the method for showing that new and expensive drugs for schizophrenia have fewer side-effects than older drugs. Perhaps the most common method to avoid unfavourable results is to make sure that a trial is not big enough to show that a competitor product is either better or worse. Such trials are very common, and Silvio Garattini, a leading Italian researcher and critic of the drug industry, has proposed a consent form for them: "I understand that this trial is worthless for science and medicine, but will be of great use to the marketing department of Shangri-la Pharmaceuticals."

All this matters greatly because 70% of trials in major medical journals are funded by the drug industry. Often companies will buy reprints of these articles to use in promoting their drug. Sometimes they may spend up to £750,000. Virtually all research on drugs is funded by the industry, because governments have taken the view that public money can be better spent elsewhere. The end result is that information on drugs (on which Britain spends £7bn a year) is distorted. The Harlot article was written to amuse, but is as deadly serious as anything else published in the BMJ in the past 10 years. The public is being regularly deceived and exploited.·
The Guardian, 14th January 2004
Note: Richard Smith is the editor of the British Medical Journal

Further resources:
Wake up to Health in the 21st Century by Steven Ransom
Health Wars by Phillip Day

A Round-up of the Fluoride News

Dear All,

Today's The Times (one of UK's leading national newspapers) carried the following opinion piece from a Times leader writer, Camilla Cavendish.
Paul Connett
www.fluoridealert.org

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Public opinion: Camilla Cavendish

We all want that ring of confidence, but at what price? Celebrities spend fortunes on straighter, whiter teeth. Now our Government wants to improve everyone's molars by fluoridating the water supply. If public health officials think aesthetics are now as important as health, they may find that human rights lawyers disagree.

The drive to fluoridate Britain's water sounds fairly harmless - fluoride occurs naturally in water - until you discover that there is no compelling reason to do it and there is increasing concern about possible risks. Europe has much lower rates of tooth decay than America despite only about 2 per cent of Europeans drinking fluoridated water compared with about 60 per cent of Americans. Finland, Cuba, Canada and eastern Germany have seen tooth decay continue to decline since abandoning the policy. Last May the Swiss city of Basle stopped fluoridation after 40 years, saying that there was no evidence that rates of tooth decay were lower there than in non-fluoridated cities. The British policy puts us alone in Europe, save for Ireland and one region of Spain.

Campaigners argue that silico-fluorides are a class 2 poison and claim that America uses an unpurified hazardous waste product in its water supply because pharmaceutical grade sodium fluoride is too expensive. Fluoride supposedly inhibits the functioning of enzymes which cause acid to build up on teeth. But there seems to be little certainty about what other enzymes it might inhibit. We know that fluoride accumulates in bones, making them more brittle and prone to fracture, and that it can displace iodine, which is crucial to the functioning of the thyroid.

Hypothyroidism (under-active thyroid) is a growing problem in the US. Fluoride also appears to damage the tooth enamel of between 30 and 50 per cent of children in fluoridated communities.

But ministers are determined to overcome the water companies' resistance to fluoridation. In 1995 Yorkshire Water said that they would not fluoridate because their customers did not want it and because government indemnities to them were "insufficient" - thus appearing to acknowledge that mass medication could breach civil liberties. So the new Water Act gives health authorities the power to force water companies to fluoridate supplies after "local consultation" , although the nature of that consultation and the level of indemnity have yet to be fixed.

Why are we spending public money on a policy that has so little apparent public benefit? In 2000, scientists at York University carried out a major review of fluoridation and recommended studies to determine its possible effects on the thyroid gland and child intelligence. Two years later the Medical Research Council advised that these recommendations were unimportant and instead proposed research to determine the "public perception of aesthetically unacceptable dental fluorosis ". Staggeringly, the York review concluded that "little high-quality research has been undertaken in the area of fluoride and health". The Government should surely have spent money to correct this before plunging into legislation that could bring with it a heavy bill if it is found to violate the individual's right to refuse treatment for non-contagious diseases. The water companies will hope to blame the health authorities, but the first test case should be fascinating.
The Times, 10th February 2004

PHILLIP DAY'S COMMENT: Camilla Cavendish is to be applauded for her article. In fact, I think everyone on the EClub listings should send Camilla a note of support for her stance. Just a short two-liner to letters@thetimes.co.uk should do nicely.

INTERNATIONAL FLUORIDE INFORMATION NETWORK
IFIN BULLETIN 906: Victory in Honolulu!
February 11, 2004.

Dear All,

For some days we have been sitting on the fact that the City Council in Honolulu had voted 7 to 2 to keep fluoride (and any other chemical added for medicinal purposes) out of Honolulu's water. We held the story back because it had to be ratified by the Mayor - he could have exercised his veto - we have just heard that he has not done so and has just signed the bill. This is a huge victory and the result of a huge amount of work by our friends in Hawaii - so well done Thelma Martindale, Bob Briggs, Adrian Chang and many others to numerous to name. Heartiest congratulations. Those who want to add their voice to the celebrations please email Bob Briggs at Rgbriggs2@aol.com and I am sure he will share your messages to all who have worked on making this great achievement possible.

Paul Connett.
www.fluoridealert.org

PS Now you know where to take your next vacation!

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Here is Bob Briggs' earlier message:

Dear Prof. Connett:

I think you would want to know this.

Yesterday, 1/28/04, the Honolulu city council passed, on final reading, our bill [City & County of Honolulu Council Bill 66CD1] which is for an ordinance to prohibit the introduction of unnecessary chemical additives, considered to be medication. All we need now is for our mayor to sign it. At the moment we are not certain the mayor will sign it, but we have high hopes. The mayor has until 2/12/04 to sign it or veto it . Should he veto it, it appears we have enough votes on the council to override his veto.

At the hearing yesterday, the proponents of fluoridation, including of course Mark Greer, provided the same old garbage in their testimony and tried to get the council to defer action.

Yes, the council's action yesterday gave our gang a big lift, with hugs and handshakes all around.

We expect the fluoridation proponents will be pressuring Mayor Harris, so we will, I expect, in big numbers, be advising our mayor concerning the absurdity of their claims and urge him to sign.

Aloha,

Bob Briggs

INTERNATIONAL FLUORIDE INFORMATION NETWORK
IFIN BULLETIN 895: Things hotting up in the UK.
January 30, 2004.

Dear All,

Water companies in the UK, which have been promised indemnity from legal action (by Blair's government) if they fluoridate the water, are being inundated with 'Yellow Cards' from their customers. These cards warn the companies that if they deliver fluoridated water to their homes people will refuse to pay their water bills or simply deduct the costs of providing alternative sources.

Here are two articles and an editorial sent to us by Jane Jones, Campaign Director, National Pure Water Association http://www.npwa.freeserve.co.uk. In particular, Jane asks us to write to the editors of the Newcastle Chronicle, you'll understand why when you read their editorial. It will make your blood, if not your bottled water, boil!

Seriously, it is really important when our colleagues risk jail on a matter of principle, especially one that we are all working for, that we show our solidarity. So please write to the editors of the Newcastle Chronicle - paul.robertson@ncjmedia.co.uk, grahamheslop@icnortheast.net and send us a copy at ggvideo@northnet.org and also to Jane at jane@npwa.freeserve.co.uk. And please pass this message on to your friends and colleagues.

Thank you.

Paul Connett
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WATER CAMPAIGNERS FACE THREAT OF ACTION

Shropshire anti-fluoride protesters have been warned they face legal action if they carry out a threat to withhold water charges if the county's supply is treated with the chemical, it was revealed today.

The National Pure Water Association has launched a campaign in Shropshire to fight any move towards treating the county water supply and is planning a big protest meeting in Shrewsbury next week.

It is urging people to write to water companies saying that fluoride is mass medication and is against fundamental human rights.

Supporters are also being urged to tell water companies that if supplies are artificially treated, they will protect the health and rights of people in their households by providing them with non-fluoridated water and deduct the cost from their water bills.

But people who have sent protest letters to Severn Trent, which supplies most of Shropshire, have received a reply warning against such action.

Customer contract manager, Fraser Pithie, says: "The Water Industry Act provides that people who receive supplies from a water company are under a legal duty to pay water charges. Fluoridation of water supplies under the Act does not provide a legitimate reason for non-payment of water charges. A water company is entitled to take enforcement action through the courts."

The Shropshire protest meeting will be held at the Lord Hill Hotel, Shrewsbury, next Wednesday at 7pm. It will be chaired by Dr Alan Shrank, a retired consultant dermatologist and chairman of the Shrewsbury branch of the association.

The meeting has been called following a Government decision last month to give strategic health authorities, such as the one for Shropshire and Staffordshire, the power to compel water companies to fluoridate drinking water in the interests of cutting decay in young children's teeth.
The Shropshire Star, 29 January 2004.
http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/publish/article_11834.shtml
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FLUORIDE RISK TOO MUCH TO SWALLOW
by Jamie Diffley

Our drinking water is at the centre of a one-man protest today as osteopath Robin Watkins claims he'd rather face jail than pay his bill.

He refuses to drink the Northumbrian Water which comes through his taps, insisting the fluoride it contains is bad for the health of him, his wife and his children, aged six and three.

Instead the family, of Harley Terrace, Gosforth, drinks around six litres of bottled water every week.

And 48-year-old Mr Watkins has told Northumbrian Water he is going to offset the cost - about 2 pounds sterling a week - against his next water bill.

Northumbrian Water bosses have hit back and threatened court action to claw back unpaid monies but Mr Watkins is undeterred.

He said: "I am keeping all the receipts and will send them to Northumbrian Water, plus the financial difference when I get the next bill. I have told them what I am doing and I'm prepared to go to court. I am standing up for my rights."

Fluoridation began in the North East in the early 70s at the request of the local health authorities.

About one million of Northumbrian Water's 2.6 million customers have fluoridated water paid for by health chiefs.

But Mr Watkins called it "mass medication" and said he should have a choice. He said: "It's treatment without consent. I have never been asked if I want fluoride in my water and if I had I would have said no. Northumbrian Water is breaking my fundamental rights."

Mr Watkins is a member of campaign group the National Pure Water Association, founded in 1960, which fights for clean water.

Campaign director Jane Jones said: "The NPWA's position, which it has maintained since 1960, is that drinking water should be as safe for consumption as is possible, with minimal chemical treatment. No chemicals intended to medicate or treat populations should ever be added to drinking water."

But information officer for the British Fluoridation Society, Sheila Jones, said there are massive benefits.

She said: "If you compare like-for-like areas that have had fluoride in the water to those that haven't, the benefits are enormous. In the North East, adults have grown up with having fluoride in the water and all the health benefits that come with it."

Should flouride be added to tap water?

Yes says: Chief Executive of the British Dental Health Foundation Dr Nigel Carter. "Fluoride is a mineral that occurs naturally in all water. It helps the teeth by strengthening the tooth enamel, making them more resistant to tooth decay. Research proves that adding fluoride to the water supply reduces tooth decay by between 40 and 60 percent.

"As it is a natural mineral, the British Dental Health Foundation sees no reason why it should not be added artificially to those water supplies with a low level of fluoride. Those against fluoride argue that adding it to water nationwide could lead to other health problems. However, research such as that carried out by the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at York University (2000) and the Medical Research Council (2002) has found no evidence yet of a link."

No says: Jane Jones, Campaign Director of the National Pure Water Association. "Our 'Yellow Card' is a warning to water companies that they must not violate the rights of their customers, no matter who tells them to. Northumbrian Water has been fluoridating about 40% of its drinking water supply for decades.

"All fluorides in water are classified as pollutants - that's why the water companies are asking the Government to give them civil and criminal indemnity if they add fluoridation chemicals.

"In 1997, Northumbria acknowledged that water customers didn't want fluoridation and Newcastle and North Tyneside Health Authorities took the company to court for refusing to extend it in their area. Now Northumbrian Water is threatening to take Robin Watkins to court because he wants them to stop polluting Newcastle's water. The NPWA applauds his courage in standing up to protect his family's health and rights."
Evening Chronicle, Newcastle.
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CTM COMMENT: This editorial appeared in the same paper (The Newcastle Chronicle) on the same day as the article above (Jan 29, 2004). With it came the FOLLOWING nasty Evening Chronicle comment:

'We hope water protester Robin Watkins enjoys prison food - because that's where he's heading. The dad-of-two says he'd rather go to jail than pay his water bills in protest at the addition of fluoride to our supplies. He's happy to bathe and flush his toilet with Northumbria Water's fluoridated water but, because he doesn't drink the stuff, he doesn't see why he should pay for it all. Well his gripes don't wash with the rest of society which has benefited from better dental health courtesy of the fluoridation policy. A spell behind bars might bring him to his senses.'

So might a spell behind bars for those deliberately contaminating the public drinking water supply with raw industrial waste out of the phosphate fertiliser industry. And, come to think of it, their poodles in the media.

Further Resources:
For a full explanation of the water fluoridation argument:
Health Wars by Phillip Day (Chapter. Water under the Bridge)
To join your national anti-fluoride organisation, contact www.fluoridealert.org.

Action Alert:
Act now to keep irradiated fruit out of New Zealand.

Turners & Growers appear determined to saddle New Zealand consumers with nuked fruit from Australia. They are investing millions of dollars in this unsafe technology, which consumers worldwide are rejecting, and scientist are concerned about.

The first fruit destined for New Zealand are mangoes. Scientists have discovered that when they are irradiated, carcinogenic compounds called 2-ACBs (2-a) are formed. But FSANZ is not convinced this matters. We are.

Write or email Turners & Growers and tell them we don't want their irradiated food and to keep it out of New Zealand.

Turners & Growers Limited:
HEAD OFFICE & CORPORATE
2 Monahan Rd Mt Wellington Auckland
PO Box 56 Auckland
Ph: 0-9-914 5690 ; 0-9-914 5703
Fax: 0-9-914 5701
Email: helpinghand@turnersandgrowers.com
Website: www.turnersandgrowers.com

INTERNATIONAL DIVISION
2 Monahan Rd Mt Wellington Auckland
Ph: 0-9-914 8977
Fax: 0-9-914 8946
Customer Service
PO Box 290 Auckland
Ph: 0-9-915 8000
Fax: 0-9-914 8001

Suggested format for letter:

To the management of Turners and Growers:

I am deeply concerned by Turners and Growers intention to develop and use irradiation technology on produce destined for the NZ market.

As a consumer I do not want this unsafe technology to be used and I will actively boycott produce that has been irradiated.

Please consider the international experience - which has proved irradiation to be an unsafe practice - and has seen the rejection of produce by consumers.

Don't make the same mistake.

Seven Common Misconceptions
About Tylenol and Other OTC Drugs
By Dr. Joseph Mercola with Rachael Droege

Each year Americans buy about 5 billion over-the-counter (OTC) drugs in the hopes of treating routine medical problems. Many believe OTC drugs do not pose the same risks as prescription drugs and are completely safe to use, as they are so readily available.

Unfortunately, the ease with which OTC drugs can be obtained presents a false sense of security. As with all drugs, OTC drugs are simply covering up symptoms and are not addressing the underlying cause of the symptoms. Further, even though they're available without a prescription, they are still drugs, and many contain powerful ingredients. Take a look at the following misconceptions that are floating around to get an idea of the potential risks of relying on OTC drugs, and check out my nutrition plan to learn how to prevent many of the illnesses that drive you to use these drugs in the first place.

Myth 1: OTC Drugs are Safer Than Prescription Drugs
Over-the-counter drugs can have serious side effects and can even result in death if taken incorrectly. Some 56,000 people end up in the emergency room each year from misuse of acetaminophen, the main ingredient in Tylenol, alone. As with prescription drugs, OTC drugs can interact with foods, other medications, and existing medical conditions and cause some major problems.

Myth 2: It Takes a Whole Bottle to Overdose
It's possible to overdose without even knowing you took too much. For instance, according to government estimates about 100 people die each year after unintentionally taking too much acetaminophen (an overdose of the drug, which includes Tylenol, can poison the liver).

One of the biggest problems is that many OTC medicines sold for different uses have the same active ingredient. So someone who takes a cold remedy along with a headache remedy or prescription pain reliever may be inadvertently receiving three or four times the safe level. You should avoid taking multiple drugs with the same active ingredient at the same time.

Along with acetaminophen, another group of OTC drugs to watch out for are painkillers called NSAIDs (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs), which include aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen and ketoprofen. Overdosing on these widely available drugs can cause stomach bleeding and kidney problems.

Myth 3: Any Potential Drug Interactions Will be Listed on the Label
While OTC drug labels will include some of the potentially harmful interactions on the label, you cannot rely on them to cover every one (and many people do not take the time to read the label anyway). Certain foods, drugs, herbs, vitamins and your own existing medical conditions could potentially create a harmful reaction. The best way to find out about these potential interactions would be to talk to a doctor or pharmacist, but since many OTC drugs are sold in grocery stores, convenient stores--even gas stations--there isn't always a knowledgeable person available to answer your questions.

There are many interactions that can occur and many are unexpected. For instance, if you have high blood pressure you could have an adverse reaction if you take a nasal decongestant.

Myth 4: OTC Drugs are Cheaper than Prescription Drugs
OTC medications are not always cheap. You may find that what you think is a simple OTC remedy is costing you more than some prescription drugs, and many cost more than the nutritional interventions you could take to address the underlying problems.

Myth 5: OTC Drugs Have Fewer Side-Effects than Prescription Drugs
All drugs carry the risk of side effects. Whether they're prescribed by a doctor or bought over-the-counter does not make a difference in this risk.

Myth 6: It's Safe to Use OTC Drugs with Vitamins or other Nutritional Supplements
This is a major issue, as most don't realize that vitamins and herbs can interact with medications just as medications can interact with each other. Interactions could cause unexpected side effects, could alter the effectiveness of the drug or vitamin making them more or less powerful, or could even worsen the condition you are trying to treat.

Myth 7: I Only Need to Look at the Active Ingredient on the Label
Inactive ingredients, which are labeled "inactive" by the FDA because they presumably have no effect on the body, can indeed be problematic. Many OTC medications contain additives that may surprise you, such as artificial dyes, caffeine and sweeteners like aspartame. You will want to be sure to read the inactive ingredients on the label along with the active ingredient section to be sure you are aware of exactly what you are consuming.
www.mercola.com

CTM COMMENT: Dr Joseph Mercola hosts an excellent, free newsletter which can be obtained by registering at www.mercola.com. This site is also excellent for doing searches by subject on tens of thousands of pages of documentation. In our opinion, Dr Joe's a great resource.

The Mailbag
Some of January's correspondence from our members

"We agree wholeheartedly that the traditional medical practices used, being chemo and radiation, are highly suspect, to say the least. We are very interested in alternative medical practices and natural remedies for healing the body and see that correct nutrition, rest and exercise plays an important part in eliminating or avoiding cancer." - Mr & Mrs Ern A., Queensland Australia

"Read 'Health Wars and cried! Read 'Food For Thought' and was encouraged. Just reading 'The Mind Game'. I too am a victim of medical mad 'practice' but have seen the light. How could I become involved in this movement in South Africa? Are there any representatives here? One of my friends is now reading 'Health Wars' as she is recovering from breast cancer after being in remission twice. She is now on the Hallelujah Diet since the beginning of December 2003 and her last T Count was normal. She cannot put 'Health Wars' down. There is a need to educate and liberate the ill-informed, previously disadvantaged folk in our country from falling prey to money-making medical maniacs who see the knife and the prescription as the only means to healing and saving lives. I've been there and survived. How many have not?" - Cheryl S., KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

"Your website very concisely tells the truth behind the stinking, corrupt, undemocratic EU and shows why we must dump the EU NOW!"- Geoffrey D., Northants., UK

"Very informative and straightforward information is much needed to dispel the myths of medicine; the public has been duped and lied to for years. People need to make informed decisions about their health and CTM, luckily, is not afraid to tell the truth. Keep on informing people until you embarrass the s**t (!) out of the profit-mongering pharmaceuticals industry." - Sylvia L. Victoria, Australia

"Fantastic, keep it up. You are making a huge difference in educating the people and saving lives." - Colin M., Auckland, New Zealand

"I have CLL and, after much study, decided the current medical treatment in the US is dangerous and going in the wrong direction. I have been taking B17 for two years and feel it contributes to my well-being." - Frieda B., MN., USA

"I am a natural health therapist (semi-retired). Although I have always encouraged a serious level of dialogue between complimentary and allopathic medicine, I am concerned to see the decline in this activity hastened by the onslaught on natural medicine coming out of Europe, and so eagerly aided by our own government departments and inevitably by the drug cartel. Polarised opinions are always destructive and those with the most to lose ie. the sick, are the first to suffer from our inability to solve this impasse. We must try harder to find a route through." - Mrs Christine M., Scotland, UK

"I live with cancer and have done so knowingly for about 9 years without conventional treatment. I am naturally interested in what is going on with cancer treatments and wonder why - and at the same time know why, namely money, keeps nutritional and lifestyle changes from being studied and researched more thoroughly for the benefit of others." - Mrs Rose S., Tauranga, New Zealand

"What I have read in your mail to date echoes my sentiments about much cancer treatment and the involvement of drug companies in opposing much alternative medicine and dietary regimes." - Mrs Ruth L., Northland, New Zealand

"Am surrounded by people fighting cancers of varying types and would dearly love to help if they would listen! For myself, I lost my parents, my two sisters and my wife to that dreaded C word. Fight the good fight of faith. Blessings." - Peter C., Queensland, Australia

"I was diagnosed with cancer 18 months ago and am treating myself with diet, meditation, affirmations and reading voraciously! All a bit scary, but people like you give me courage. Thank you." - Ms Susan H., Victoria, Australia

"Love what you do, my friends. Expose the truths and keep on keeping it real."- Miss Sheridan A., Victoria, Australia

"The article on cancer was a real eye opener! I would like to read more, especially with regards to natural ways to cure." - Mrs Wendy R., Nairobi, Kenya

"There is so much false information brainwashing the general public. I want to do what I can to get the whole truth out and take the power from the killing corporations." - Ms Martha S., Dublin, Ireland

"As a student of nutritional medicine, I was doing research for my assignments and came across your website. I am very impressed especially as my husband died of bladder cancer - or the treatments for cancer - six years ago. Keep up the good work." - Mrs Cynthia T., Mid Glamorgan, UK

"I have an agricultural background and am very much aware of chemicals that are added to our food that makes us ill in order to keep the drug companies in control of our lives. Need I say more?" - Mrs Thelma D., Queensland, Australia

"My 5-year-old son has a brain tumour in the brain stem. Inoperable. He was given 3 months to live approximately 20 months ago. We are treating him with B17 metabolic therapy, liquid bovine cartilage, mushroom extract, wheatgrass, etc.. His tumour has shrunk to approximately 1/5 size and may now be only scar tissue. Your books provided us with the catalyst and inspiration. Please keep us informed. We now feel that we are truly in the position to help and advise others. Include us in any campaigns, publicity etc. planned or evolving in Australia. With love and gratitude," - Brian and Carol C., New South Wales, Australia

"Awesome stuff! GO, GO, GO! Great work! Thank you for all you do to bring natural healing to the world!" - Ms Alice C., Connecticut, USA

"Excellent article on cancer. Expresses many views I have held myself for many years" - Mr Cris B., Nebraska, USA

"… whenever I am approached to contribute to a cancer charity, I let them know the facts!" - Trevor D'E., New South Wales, Australia

"I know that there are many alternative treatments for cancer. I'm interested in the truth about treatments and the prevention of cancer which is never mentioned in the scare tactics, nor the dangers of chemotherapy. I look forward to the bulletins." - Mrs Antoinette L., Yorkshire, UK

"Regarding the farce of a programme on cancer the other night, the result was expected, was it not? It was just another fixed piece of work by organizations that have the money and the clout to suppress leaks about cheap and workable healing. They can buy almost everyone they want in order to bring about the result they desire. Knowing this, I am sickened by the cynical way in which the public, worldwide, is being exploited by the orthodox medical profession and drug companies.
Last May, I was told I had stage 2 prostate cancer and was recommended radiation therapy. I managed to hold off the NHS oncologist's pressure to have the radiation whilst boosting my immune system with IP6+Inositol as recommended by an enlightened consultant GP at a private Arterial Disease Clinic. After 2 months, my PSA marker had gone down twice. I then started infusions at the clinic of Laetrile, DMSO and vitamin C described as non-toxic chemotherapy. There are others there getting similar, successful treatment.
My PSA has continued to fall and is now close to half of what it was in May. (9.8 down to 5.19). I feel fine and the only casualty was the ego of the National Health Service oncologist, who really had no idea how the cancer was being beaten without their intervention. What state would I be in now if I had allowed myself to be given radiation?" - Ron R., West Yorkshire, UK

"Phillip. I spoke to you at one of your lectures last year, at Blackheath, last May, when I'd had surgery for breast cancer only one month previously. I told you that I had also had mtabolic therapy - B17 infusions etc - before surgery and that I had turned down the radio/chemo route. You said some very encouraging things and I am pleased to report that a recent thermal imaging report and a blood test (telomerase) both show no evidence of secondary activity. I am continuing with mtabolic, nutritional and Ayurvedic supplements.
I have been offered a place on an NHS Forum - an independent group (300 plus all over the country) - and they accepted me, it seems, because I said I wanted to see complementary therapies given their rightful place in the NHS!! I will let you know how things go."- Helen M., London, UK

"I was totally disgusted when I watched the dumbed-down way the TV cancer programme totally belittled any other way of looking at dealing with cancer that wasn't THEIR WAY. The complementary therapy professor from Exeter was the only person supposedly from the alternative side, and he seemed to be just as disparaging about alternatives to slash, burn and poison as the regular oncologists. ONE WONDERS WHO FINANCES HIS UNIVERSITY PROGRAMME ??
Also, did anyone else notice the vast number of adverts that appeared on TV and in the papers in the days following this TV programme? What a sales pitch advertorial on prime time TV.
So thank you for your comments about it, as it reassures me I'm not the only person who felt like throwing a brick at the telly that night." - Jill N., UK

"Fantastic! Finally some information that is backed up with good, solid facts and research - entertaining as well!" - Julie S., Cairns, Australia

"First time I've heard Phillip - brilliant, really well informed and has some answers for so many conditions. Fantastic to hear someone game enough to TELL THE TRUTH - really fabulous." - Denise F., Brisbane, Australia

"I am a nursing student in my 2nd year and was greatly encouraged to incorporate what I have learned into my profession." - Margaret C. Queensland, Australia

"I have been working with a cancer patient for over 12 months and thanks to the knowledge I received from reading your book, my friend is still alive."- Mrs Sue I., New South Wales, Australia

"Such important, inspiring necessary work." - Vivianna W., New South Wales, Australia

"Excellent information. Will act on it promptly! Down with the Porche Payments!" - Maureen K., Victoria, Australia

"I'm a registered nurse caring for my 41-year-old husband who has terminal gastric cancer. Within four months of first being diagnosed, he went from stage 2 to stage 4 (terminal). I'm disgusted with the health care industry in the USA on many levels and for many reasons. I have lost most of my faith, confidence, trust and respect for their so called 'healing abilities and wisdom'. I am considering leaving the nursing profession as a result.
It seems as if the patient gets treated for symptom after symptom and then the doctors treat the side-effects of the drugs they use to treat the symptoms. How idiotic is this? Further more, I feel like they always have something to gain by pushing a certain drug or treatment (though I can't prove that to be factual). It's a redundant, self-serving lunacy.
As a result of the above, I have been self-educating and dabbling in alternative medicine for years. Recently, with my husband suddenly becoming ill, I have been able to practise what I've learned over the years and put my knowledge to some good use. Still, I feel there is so much more to learn and in so little time that I'm reaching out to anyone and everyone who's vested in eastern/alternative/anti-western approaches to prevent sickness and treat disease." - Mrs Alicia S., Pennsylvania, USA

"My husband's story is typical and you will see why we celebrate, daily, the fact that he is still alive. Due to some illnesses and medical problems that spanned a number of years, he ended up taking painkillers and anti-inflammatory drugs. Then, when he had a mental breakdown due to pain and stress overload, he was admitted to a private, psychiatric hospital in the Midlands in 1998. There, he was "treated" by a plethora of anti-psychotic drugs and he became a hallucinating, shaking, even more nervous wreck. All these symptoms were interpreted by his psychiatrist as 'his illness becoming worse'!!
He came home and very quickly developed a serious iatrogenic illness and his drug list went up and up as his medics failed to understand that he was suffering from massive adverse drug reactions to the nine prescription drugs they were giving him.
He used to trust his doctors, and he was admitted to P… Hospital as an emergency three times in 2000 being treated in a totally unprofessional and unacceptable way by an arrogant consultant who presumed he was making up all his symptoms as he had been labelled on his medical records with the words "psychosomatic disorder". So he was left for nine days with raging high inter-cranial pressure and this damaged him considerably. When he was given two more strong drugs on top of the nine he was taking, he was so frightened and worried that he took the decision to throw all of them away over a period of three weeks.
Guess what? He began to recover and now with the help of complementary therapies - just lately the Russian SCENAR treatment that has helped his brain re-connect the damaged neural pathways - his quality of life has improved enormously. We don't feel victims any more and are at the point of giving up attempting to persuade the medical profession that their chemical drugs, given in combination, do more harm than good. And until drug companies test multi-medications then who's to say that these drugs cannot harm and kill?
Your organisation is like a breath of fresh air that is much needed. Even at Ombudsman level, our complaints have been ignored. So, good luck with all your efforts and if I can help in any way - let me know.
I have been researching this issue of drug damage and polypharmacy for three years and have six files full of documented evidence and many books that I have bought. All this has been ignored by the medics and even a solicitor, who began to act for us (paid for by our house insurance) and suddenly did an about-turn and dropped the case." - Penny P., Cumbria, UK

"This mighty nation shall not fall into the hands of Europe. They couldn't take her in all their war efforts, now they try to do it the political way. This must not happen. What did our grandfathers die for?" - Steven R., West Midlands, UK

"There must be some way we can inform the 'Great British Public' of the impending DISASTER of being ruled by a non-elected, non-accountable, free from prosecution (self-imposed) bunch of legalised gangsters. Why, oh why is our so called 'free press' not making much, much more of this? Maybe it's because they are also involved. So much for their 'free' status. It looks as though there is no way to win against such people." - Michael S., London, UK

"There is too much information (virtually propaganda) publicised in the media about orthodox medicine - particularly related to cancer -and insufficient about the positive and supportive contribution of complementary and alternative medicine throughout the world. It's about time we were taken seriously - I am tired of this old 'red herring' that we are taking advantage of the general public, or 'the gullible' as they put it, simply because we choose to earn our living in this field. We are merely providing a valuable, informative and useful service to those who are CHOOSING to take some responsibility for their lives at a time when they are desperate for information." - Ms Edith M., Kent, UK

"As a person who is very focussed on health and proper nutrition, I commend the work of the CTM. I believe the biggest mistake in history was when the medical world adopted the research and teachings of Louis Pasteur instead of Antoine Beauchamp. We now know the TERRAIN IS EVERYTHING! We would like to help you in your mission in any way we can." - Mr Paul B. Bedfordshire, UK

"I attended one of Phillip Day's presentations in Wellington, New Zealand, 2003. I thoroughly enjoyed this and hope to attend others. Have been doing my best to spread the word about cancer ie. 'Cancer, Why We're Still Dying to Know the Truth' and trying to adopt the organic and anti-chemicals type lifestyles talked about. Really enjoy receiving the newsletters. Keep up the good work."- Mrs Heather W., Upper Hutt, New Zealand

"I feel what you are doing and achieving is absolutely fantastic as we all need to hear and know what's going on so we can make informed decisions. Thanks, Phillip Day and Credence. You're doing a fabulous job!" - Mrs Mary C., Victoria, Australia

"Having had an operation to remove 2 tumours from my breasts for cancer, the doctors scheduled yet another operation, plus chemo, plus radiation, plus Tamoxifen. My whole being screamed that this was terribly wrong. Two days before my second operation, through a client at my partners work, I was put in touch with a woman who was on the B17 therapy. There was the answer to my search. I cancelled the operation and the other treatments at the hospital. I was threatened that if I didn't do it their way I would die! Yeah, right! I am so over the moon that an organization such as yourselves exists and I shall spread the word!!" - Laila T., London, UK

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BOOK REVIEW: Cancer Why We're Still Dying to Know the Truth

This book by Phillip Day - one of the classics in the Credence range - presents a simple but stunning overview exposing the ongoing medical, political and economic scandal surrounding cancer and what you can do about the disease YOURSELF.

Science has known that cancer is a healing process that has not terminated upon completion of its task. This book details the amazing track record of nutrition and its role within the simple protocol of Vitamin B17 metabolic therapy, a science which has been researched to the highest levels of biochemistry, used by leading doctors around the world today to control and eliminate cancers of all kinds.

Whether you have cancer, or are exercising prevention for you and your family, this book is a MUST-READ.

Purchase Cancer: Why We're Still Dying to Know the Truth for $37.50 and a copy of the Health Wars 60-minute audio is yours for free. (Inclusive of shipping / handling / tax).

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