Whistleblower to Expose Prodi and Kinnock Failings
by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

A whiff of decay hangs over the European Commission. Four and a half years after Romano Prodi took office promising to stamp out fraud and transform Europe into the world's leading economy, his reform drive has all but collapsed.

Europe's most feared whistle-blower, Paul Van Buitenen, is writing a blistering expose of Mr Prodi's fake reforms claiming that nothing has changed since the last commission after corruption claims in 1999.

The Dutch official paints a harsh picture of Neil Kinnock, the reform commissioner, who was hoping to slip away quietly this autumn to enjoy Welsh rugby and the London theatre after years of thankless toil in the European Union "salt mines".

It claims that his reflex has been to sweep scandals under the carpet, shield miscreants, and perpetuate a system in which powerful EU insiders run fiefdoms to suit themselves. "Kinnock's name will be on every single page and it won't be pretty," said an EU official, familiar with the text.

Mr Van Buitenen, a lightning rod for disaffected EU officials, alleges that the disappearance of £3 million into "black accounts" at the IU data office, Eurostat, is just a sample of what goes on throughout the apparatus. He has outlined his book proposal in a letter to the commission, seen by The Daily Telegraph. Under staff rules he must obtain clearance before exposing the inner workings of the EU, where he has returned after working for the Dutch police.

The letter also disclosed his plan to stand as a Euro-MP this June, leading a new anti-fraud party that could win six seats in Holland, where he has been honoured by Queen Beatrix.

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Troubles are piling up fast for Mr Prodi. This week, Anna Diamantopoulou, the Greek employment commissioner, became the first of his team to throw in the towel, returning home seven months early to campaign for the socialist Pasok party.

Others with a career in national politics are quietly making their own plans to escape.

Mr Prodi himself has set the tone by spending his time planning a triumphant return to Rome at the head of a centre-left umbrella movement, earning a rebuke from Britain's Europe minister, Denis MacShane, for neglecting his job.

Yesterday in Rome Mr Prodi was re-launching his Olive Tree coalition, as a prelude to challenging his arch-rival, Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, in 2006. Brussels veterans say the Prodi commission is now graduating from lame-duck malaise to rigor mortis. No one can remember a time when the once mighty functionnaires were so demoralised, suffering serial defeats as power haemorrhages away on all sides.
The Daily Telegraph, 14th February 2004

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

How Do We Put it Right?
And Do We Even Want To?
by Phillip Day

One thousand years of independent history now boil down to the only two remaining questions that matter to Britain as a separate nation and culture today:

• Should the British regain their independence and become responsible for their actions once again?
  
• Do we even want to?

The only entity still holding true, latent power by numbers in Britain today are the British people themselves, who, up to now, have remained silent and have not yet chosen to unite and move to save their nation and culture. The British united are formidable. Is the reason they have not yet become so because they fail to see and feel the rot going on around them?

Not at all.

Travelling as I do to all corners of the land, as well as meeting many ex-pats abroad, the vast majority are extremely sore and vexed about the current situation. BBC commentator Jeremy Paxman puts this down to the belief that his countrymen are never happier than when they think their country is going to rack and ruin. Read his works though, and you can't help but sense that Mr Paxman is not even convinced by this, since he bothered to research and write his elegy, The English, and craft it with the same love and wistfulness one usually reserves for a lovable animal going to the vet for the final time.

Resignation rules the land. The people are bewitched by inaction and apathy. The mechanism linking the outrage we feel about how our country is run to anything we could do about it appears to have been completely disconnected. No-one knows what to do. No-one even knows whether anything can be done. Not one leading political party dares challenge Britain's traitors within, because the parties themselves are saturated with those who want to terminate Great Britain with extreme prejudice in favour of a European-wide socialist state. Not one newspaper dares expound in detail the ultimate option of actually leaving the European Union, since editors would lose their jobs. Leaving the EU for good is the one choice that dare not speak its name.

Limiting the range of the debate
We like to think that here in the West, we engage in free debate over the major, contentious issues. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Limitations to the extent and reach of important discussions are almost always controlled, while the appearance of the debate exudes depth and expansive content. To set the limitations to a debate such as the EU controversy, certain methods are employed by those who feed us our 'news' to keep us within 'safe' debating boundaries. And judging by the current level of interest in the EU, in both the media and among leading, liberated, Eurosceptic thinkers, the debate often appears to be far-reaching. Unwittingly or otherwise however, you will always see the borders to the argument ruthlessly policed.

The art of orchestrating and then assisting in the continuance of limited debate in 'free' society is admirably described by Noam Chomsky, American linguist and US media and foreign policy critic:

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is strictly to limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free-thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."

So what is the remedy?
Nothing less than a revolution in attitude, values and conscience in the minds of the British, whatever our ethnicity or beliefs. Nothing less than the reawakening of our responsibilities as citizens of the realm, to recover and protect the freedoms we unwittingly allowed to be stolen.

The answer for Britain is to secede from the European Union, sign a free trade agreement with the nations of the EU, and run our own affairs, as we have done for centuries. Britain is the fourth largest economy in the world based on GDP, and the EU's single largest customer. Who needs who?

Today, Switzerland and Norway are not part of the EU and are doing very well. No-one would dream of calling these countries extremist, and yet they demonstrate that life outside the EU has tremendous benefits, which include self-government, a free trade agreement to trade with the EU nations, with none of the restrictive ties and directives of the communist-style EU superstate.

Of course, some decent politicians in Britain will help. The reason we have extremists running the show is because the British culturally loathe their politicians. The brightest and the best, who should be looking after our best interests, don't, since they prefer relative anonymity to spend a lifetime in the political limelight suffering the opprobrium of the press.

Understanding the landscape

The take-over of Britain succeeded for three reasons:

• Firstly, elements of the revolution were able to hijack and take over media institutions, such as TV, radio, film, news, magazines and music, from which they could leverage their attack on the Old Order while popularising their extreme, minority views on a massive scale to a public who had no choice but to listen.
  
• Secondly, the revolution poured scorn on the established pillars of the British as a separate and distinct people - on their character, on their traditions, their reserve, their monarchy, their religion, morality and sense of duty - and told them the popular message that the time had come to stop playing the prude and start indulging their animal desires. All heroes of the Old Order were defamed and destroyed - every one of them.
  
• And thirdly, after the death and devastation of two world wars, the Old Order and the church were repeatedly and publicly mocked for having suffered a catastrophic failure of nerve even to fight for their own survival. They were shown to be inflexible, ineffectual and unwilling to live in a future without war and the weapons that went with it. They were thus unfit to rule.

And what did the average Brit feel about it all? Nothing. There's still that all-encompassing but gentle numbness today. Besieged daily through the newspapers by an unruly world they have no hope of controlling, the constant media barrages and exposés have produced what can only be described as shell-shock in the population. The British are exhausted and have had enough. We just want to play. And the Anything-Goes Revolution, like all good, popular revolutions before it, has given us all the bread, the sex, the booze and the circuses to which we feel we're entitled.

Today, Britain is a nation that has not only un-named evil, we cannot even feel shame. Yet shame is the last emotion a society should jettison, for it forms a check system that can bring the country to its senses whenever its behaviour becomes unacceptable to the great majority. But who sets the standards that will trigger shame? Who determines what behaviour is acceptable and what isn't? For a society to have the priceless benefit of shame as a check, one needs an ethics and values system against which to judge society's behaviour, but this too has been fed through the shredder. And herein lies the kernel of the British problem. As discussed earlier, we have two opposing and antagonistic belief systems in Britain today. Both are not perfect and have their problems. Neither is willing to yield to the other.

The Old Order
Largely still Christian, firmly rooted in the principle of personal liberty, traditionalist, monarchist, pro-marriage, anti-abortion, pro-capital punishment, patriotic, reverting to its faith, however dormant, to remind itself of the bedrock principles of British society. The Old Order has an ingrained scepticism of what government can actually achieve and prefers working what politics it can at the local level. The Old Order is a master of compromise and always seeks a 'middle way'.

The Old Order generally accepts the lessons of history, that mankind is inherently wicked and in need of restraint and redemption. It recognises that the British have a natural appetite for disorder and that this requires curbing. The Old Order believes that man is a moral being who is personally responsible for his actions, constantly faced with moral choices he must make which determine the path of his destiny. Behind the Old Order's requirement for discipline and duty in its youth lies the predicament that humans not educated to choose good over evil, take responsibility for their deeds or embrace the higher moral values, are those condemned to the prison of their own animal appetites and desires. Thus the Old Order understands the prime value of team-work - that if one is to survive, all must survive, and that rebellion and bad behaviour are expected in a fallen world but must be curbed with disciplinary education and the law.

The Old Order has a clearly defined idea of what 'sin' and 'moral evil' are and what should be done to contain and expunge them. The Old Order's society was set up, as we later saw, with its public and grammar school systems, to instil Old Order virtues of discipline, duty, honesty, integrity, honour, sacrifice, modesty, sexual probity and social reliability into its youth, and to have them transfer these values to their children. The Old Order took pride in applying the law fairly, dispassionately and with what it saw as a sacred duty to preserve the rights of the accused. The Old Order was pedantic about preserving the legal safeguards of habeus corpus, double jeopardy and trial by jury to ensure justice was applied without favour or prejudice. The Common Law, which was discovered to administer society along these lines, was tailor-made to anticipate the nooks and crannies of everyday situations and to provide for them.

The Old Order used the religious mechanisms of forgiveness and redemption to defuse themselves and their society, which they obtained through Jesus Christ and the Christian religion. The Old Order stated that no-one, including the monarch, was above the law. The monarch, to the Old Order, was the embodiment of the sovereignty of the people and endued with a certain mystery. In the past when the monarch abused the privileges of being the icon of the people, it did not go well for the monarch. The Old Order venerated the monarch, in spite of any problems, and sought not to criticise or defame, as the monarch was the stylised quintessence of themselves.

The New Order
The New Order behind the socialist revolution rejects traditionalism, is generally anti-capital punishment, anti-marriage, anti-monarchy, pro-abortion, non-patriotic but global-socialist in its outlook. The New Order generally does not believe that man is the creation of God, but chooses to embrace the theory of evolution, a religion constantly pushed through the media it controls. Since man now is apparently nothing more than a haphazard product of his environment, the result of the billions of blind-random mistakes of Lyell and Darwin's evolution, he cannot be held responsible for his actions. Right and wrong are religious notions, not scientific ones, therefore they are enslaving and stress-causing.

The New Order is anti-Christian, replacing traditional, religious mores with evolution and humanism and administering its society using humanism's psychological/psychiatric philosophies. Thus, there is no salvation, only survival of the fittest. There is no hell, therefore no personal accountability or judgment on wrongdoing. There is no heaven, therefore heaven on Earth must be established by the New Order. There is no sin, only sickness. And such religious rituals as repentance, designed to alleviate guilt and atone for sin, have been replaced by individual and group psychotherapeutic interventions. The New Order believes that mankind is basically good (in spite of the sobering record of history), and that bad behaviour needs to be understood and pardoned rather than punished.

Education
The New Order's youth has no concept of the mistakes of the past, since it is taught politically correct British history, not the 'warts and all' version. The new education trains today's youth to look at a beneficent European Union as the path to Britain's salvation, without teaching the heartbreak of the past that adorns all totalitarian regimes. Socialist education scorns the rich, so today's youth come to regard burglary and robbery as a justifiable levy against 'fat cats', who turn out to be everyone else but themselves. The new education sees competition as stress-causing, and so there are prizes for everybody, no competition, no right or wrong, no personal accountability.

How harsh the medicine?
For a society to change, the society has to want to change. The New and the Old must either learn to live together in compromise and a relative peace, or else continue tearing each other apart. The few, who are tirelessly active in raising awareness of Britain's social and political predicaments, must often wonder: "Why do I bother expending all this effort, spending all this money and investing all my time, if the British do not want to save themselves?"

Why indeed?

Like imperial Rome in the twilight of her years, could the rot be so ingrained, the hour so late, that the British as a people are unable to make a stand against their own annihilation? Do the British need to suffer on their own cross and die in order to be reborn? Could the wars of disassociation that may follow any armed civilian insurrection against the European Union a few years from now be the sacrifice required to shock the British to their senses? From some interviews I have attended, these agonies are described by politicians in muted tones. They recognise there are thousands in Britain who will not stand by and silently watch the destruction of their country. Too much blood has been invested; too many loved ones never came home from the poppy fields of Flanders, the jungles of Burma or the deserts of North Africa. Some never even made it home from the office.

But if the British fail to act in time, the European play moves to the final scene by default - total political and economic integration under an new EU Constitution. Coerced into breaking down the last of her political character by traitors within and a devious enemy without, Britain will be compelled by the power of treaty to embrace the dark and unfamiliar future she has chosen for herself. Short of war, this final move will be irreversible and final.

Then again, maybe this is the way it has to be. With the horrors of the past world wars forgotten or never known to many today, maybe the British have to re-learn the lessons of the past. Maybe, in the midst of all the turmoil, bloodshed and misery that must surely follow the dawning of the truth of our predicament, we might discover that we needed to be put into this position of such utter, dire peril once more, so we could find forgiveness for all the selfishness and indifference, and in the forgiving, perhaps a kind of redemption.

The Real Face of the European Union by Phillip Day, video documentary (PAL format only)
Ten Minutes to Midnight by Phillip Day
Vigilance by Ashley Mote

Reporter Following Trail of Corruption in EU is Arrested
by Ambrose Evans-Prichard

Police arrested a leading investigative journalist yesterday on the orders of the European Union, seizing his computers, address books and archive of files in a move that stunned Euro-MPs.

Hans Martin Tillack, the Brussels' correspondent for Germany's Stern magazine, said he was held for 10 hours without access to a lawyer by the Belgian police after his office and home were raided by six officers.

"They asked me to tell them who my sources were. I replied that was something I would never do. Now they have all my sensitive files, so I suppose they'll find out anyway," he said last night. "The police said I was lucky I was not in Burma or Central Africa, where journalists get the real treatment," he added.

Mr Tillack said the raid was triggered by a complaint from the EU's anti-fraud office, OLAF. He was accused of paying money to obtain a leaked OLAF dossier two years ago, which he denies. The European Ombudsman has already come to his defence, issuing harsh criticism of OLAF's campaign to silence him.

Mr Tillack, who describes himself as a "pro-European federalist", has been OLAF's most vocal critic, accusing it of covering up abuses within the EU system. As the author of a recent book on EU corruption, he has the greatest archive of investigative files of any journalist working in Brussels.

OLAF was created to replace the old fraud office, UCLAF, which was accused of covering up abuses by the disgraced Santer Commission. Many UCLAF staff were transferred to OLAF.
The Daily Telegraph, 20th March 2004

PHILLIP DAY'S COMMENT: Unfortunately this is the sort of behaviour from the EU we can expect more of in the future. With a federal police now with access to Britain whose officers have immunity from prosecution under the criminal law, opponents to the EU may be summarily rounded up and, if necessary, hauled out of the country. And how long before the EU police resort to giving opponents 'the real treatment', headquartered as they are in the old Gestapo building in The Hague? Am I the only one getting goosebumps at the sound of goosesteps?

Further Resources:
Want to know what you can do about it?

The Real Face of the European Union directed Phillip Day (documentary)
Ten Minutes to Midnight by Phillip Day
Vigilance by Ashley Mote

Defenders Of The Realm
Battle for Britain Campaign

From: JOHN GOURIET Campaign Office Chairman Southbank House
Black Prince Road
LONDON SE1 7SJ

Tel: 44 (0) 1984 656256/207 793 4049
44 (0) 7831 342909
e.mail: john.gouriet1@virgin.net

Time: 12.00 p.m. Friday March 12, 2004

PRESS RELEASE

The People's Petition to Her Majesty the Queen

At 11.30 a.m. Monday March 15, 2004 a petition to HM The Queen, bearing some nine hundred thousand (900,000) signatures, was delivered to Buckingham Palace by Norris McWhirter CBE, John Gouriet and Roy Faiers, Editor of This England magazine. Mr. Faiers has compiled the appeal on behalf of Defenders of the Realm and has received this large and continuing response not only from Britain, but from Britons around the world.

The text is as follows;

"Your Majesty - We the undersigned, are sending you this petition to register our deep concerns for the democratic future, freedom and sovereign independence of Great Britain. We beseech Your Majesty to exercise your reserve powers by withholding Royal Assent to any Bill which seeks to replace the historic English Constitution with a new one currently being drawn up by the European Union, unless and until a clear majority of the whole British electorate have exercised their prior approval of its adoption by means of a totally free and fair National Referendum."

ENDS

Contact: John Gouriet Tel 01984 656256 or 07831 342909
Or Jessica Tel 0207 793 4049

Council & Trustees: Lord Pearson of Rannoch, Norris McWhirter CBE, Frederick Forsyth CBE, Edward Fox OBE, David Hempleman-Adams Capt. John Hutchinson FRAeS FRIN, David Shepherd OBE.
Chairman: John Gouriet Editor: Roy Faiers Treasurer: C.J.K. Arkell FTCA Legal Adviser: John Bingley

Heading up this month's collection of articles on cancer is a detailed story entitled Death By Medicine by By Gary Null, PhD; Carolyn Dean MD, ND; Martin Feldman, MD; Debora Rasio, MD; and Dorothy Smith, PhD and reprinted from Life Extension magazine. Due to the formatting constraints of this printable version, the article could not be reproduced within. However, you may Click Here for a direct link to the body of the article where it can be read online or downloaded.

Breast Cancer Drug That Raises
Survival Chances by a Third
by Jenny Hope

A new treatment for breast cancer which improves survival rates by a third was last night hailed as the biggest breakthrough against the disease for more than twenty years. Early results from a major trial show women, who use a sequence of two drugs, dramatically cut the risk of their cancer coming back.

They took tamoxifen, the 'gold standard' treatment for the disease, for two to three years before switching to the new drug, exemestane, for the rest of their therapy. Those of them who took tamoxifen for the full five years did not record such good results.

Each year, 41,000 British women develop breast cancer and it claims 13,000 lives.

Specialists believe that 'aromatase inhibitors' such as exemestane will challenge tamoxifen as the standard treatment following surgery. Of the 30,000 women who develop breast cancer after the menopause, around 20,000 are prescribed tamoxifen for five years after surgery because of its record in preventing the disease from recurring.

The latest research was co-ordinated by Cancer Research UK and studied 4,700 post-menopausal women worldwide, including 600 from Britain, for five years. They all started on tamoxifen but, after two or three years, half switched to exemestane. The others continued with tamoxifen.

For every 100 patients who changed to exemestane, eight had a recurrence within three years and 92 stayed free of cancer. For every 100 patients who continued with tamoxifen, 13 had a recurrence within three years and 87 were cancer free.

Taking the combination of drugs also cut the chance of a new cancer developing in the other breast by 50 per cent. And there was a big drop in side effects, including clotting, while the risk of other cancers seemed to be cut.

Dr John Troy, medical director of Cancer Research UK, said the study published in the New England Journal Of medicine was "a very exciting advance". Judith Bliss, director of the charity's clinical trials and statistics unit, said the results were published before the study was officially finished because of their 'magnitude and statistical certainty'.

Professor Charles Coombes said too many women relapse within five years of surgery because their cancer becomes resistant to tamoxifen.

"This can be devastating," said Professor Coombes, director of the charities' laboratories at Imperial College, Hammersmith and Charing Cross Hospitals in London. "It can be a death sentence when it spreads to other sites in the body. In terms of changing the disease, these results show we are achieving something." Daily Mail, 11th March 2004.

PS Anastrozole and letrazole are aromatase inhibitors licensed for advanced breast cancer and work in a similar way to exemestane. They are effective in two thirds of patients where the tumours are stimulated by the female hormone oestrogen and only work in women who have passed the menopause. While tamoxifen works by blocking oestrogen's effects on cancer cells, aromatase inhibitors shut down the body's supply.

PHILLIP DAY'S COMMENT: Exemestane, like those other cancer drugs before it, will prove a disappointment in reality. Here's why. Every time you hear Cancer Research UK or the American Cancer Society speak of survival rates, they are talking about the cancer patient surviving five years after initial treatment, not surviving the disease for good. If a patient survives five years, even if they die six months later, they are still hailed as a cancer survivor. Cured and dead. Thus, if you are a drug company, you need to see if you can jig things so the patient lasts at least five years after initial treatment. If you succeed, you can issue press releases claiming you have 'greatly increased people's chances of surviving cancer' with your drug, and your share price will surely rocket. Needless to say, the hapless Joe in the street, shovelling fivers into the charity money tins because his dog just died of cancer, is completely unaware of this scam.

The reality is, cancer does not become 'resistant' to Tamoxifen. Tamoxifen is an estrogen blocker. Estrogen-positive breast cancer is the result of stem (healing) cells being stimulated by estrogen as part of a normal healing process into a morphogenetic stimulus which produces the lump. Artificially suppressing estrogen does not answer the problem of why there is estrogen dominance in the woman's body in the first place. This is akin to facing an overflowing sink and grabbing the mop rather than the tap. Tamoxifen, Arimidex, Exemestane, or even fairy dust for that matter, certainly do not solve the environmental, dietary or pathological reasons why the patient has too much estrogen and not enough progesterone in their body. These problems can only be dealt with through dietary and lifestyle changes. And that's before we look at whether there are fungal concerns in the patient too.

I have another problem with this announcement which concerns the human rights issue. As Cancer Research UK well knows, the Department of Health produces strict guidelines to all doctors on the subject of informed consent. These state that the patient should be made aware of the benefits and risks of any treatment given. I sincerely doubt whether patients given Tamoxifen are told it can cause liver cancer and was put on the Californian Carcinogens Register in the mid 1990's. Might that just change the drug's sparkly reputation? Is it any wonder patients feel better when they stop taking it? What about Exemestane? Like almost all other chemos, is it a carcinogen? Total silence on that one so far too, I'm afraid.

By the way, the Department of Health also states patients be given full knowledge on alternative treatments. Ho-hum. Don't hold your breath there either.

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

Is Laetrile (B17) Useless?

PHILLIP DAY'S COMMENT: Professor Edzard Ernst of Exeter University, one of Britain's only 'alternative medicine' professors, declares that Vitamin B17 Laetrile is useless against cancer, that people are being ripped off, and that those supporting its use are 'criminals'. 'In terms of treatment and prolongation of life,' he states, 'not only is the use of alternative and complementary medicine not supported by data, it is very often fraudulent and even criminal.' He goes onto say: 'It [using alternative approaches to combating cancer] can be quite dangerous from the patient's point of view. Many give up conventional treatment and this predictably leads to disaster.' Alternative cures, Ernst insists, 'are all bogus.' What, Prof, all of them?

A man in a position of authority making such statements in the Sunday Telegraph, which promptly agrees with them, can only be described as a menace to society. We have already dealt with the dangerous rip-offs of traditional chemotherapy and radiation treatments which themselves have no data supporting their extension of life in the major, epithelial cancers, and worse, may finish the patient with an agonising death. There are literally hundreds of studies which show the damaging, deadly effects of these treatments. So, giving up conventional treatment predictably leads to disaster, does it? No data supporting Laetrile's (B17) clinical use against cancer, eh?

My advice is for everyone to send a postcard to Professor Ernst, care of Exeter University, Exeter, England, suggesting he resign and make a meaningful contribution to society instead, perhaps even an appearance on 'I'm a Trojan Horse, Get Me Out of Here'. The hope of cancer's defeat does not reside in the obvious duplicity and deceit of such people, but with his colleagues and peers who have seen the wonderful effects of combined nutritional protocols against cancer, and are today struggling to make their voices heard for the benefit of all.

Also, whizz an e-mail off to the Sunday Telegraph, whose opinion it is that you are all gullible individuals who will die much sooner taking care of yourselves rather than having toxic and carcinogenic chemicals poured into your veins. Insist the idiot who wrote the piece resigns and writes up weddings instead.

A sample ten cases, disproving Ernst and his splendidly named friend Winer, now follow. In this author's view, had complete dietary changes and detoxification protocols also been followed, recovery would have been accelerated.

The use of Laetrile (l-mandelonitrile-beta-glycuronoside), a beta cyanogenetic glucoside, is based on Professor John Beard's unitarian or trophoblastic thesis of cancer. In a review of 17,000 papers on malignant neoplasms and related biological subjects, the trophoblast has been described as the sine qua non of cancer.

CHEMOTHERAPY OF INOPERABLE CANCER
Preliminary Report of 10 Cases Treated with Laetrile
by
John A. Morrone, M.D., F.I.C.S., A.S.A.S.
Jersey City, N.J.
Attending Surgeon, Jersey City Medical Center

RATIONALE
The malignant lesion is characterized by a high focal concentration of beta glucuronidase, which is a beta-glucosidase. Laetrile is a glucoside which is hydrolyzed specifically by beta-glucosidase enzymes, with production of benzaldehyde, glucose, and nascent hydrogen cyanide.

Rhodanese, the cyanide-detoxifying enzyme, is absent or relatively deficient in malignant lesions but present in normal tissues. Nascent hydrocyanic acid is released to the extent of about 10% in the vulnerable carcinomatous areas but not elsewhere in the body.

PREVIOUS REPORTS
In a group of 14 cases of cancer with metastases treated with Laetrile, there was striking relief of pain with discontinuance of analgesics, disappearance of fetor from ulceration, improved appetite and regression of the tumor.

In another study of 21 terminal cases, the use of Laetrile provided satisfactory relief of pain, reduction of hemorrhage and jaundice, almost constant improvement in strength and the hematological pattern, and in sonic cases an appreciable reduction of the neoplastic mass.

CLINICAL MATERIAL
The present group included 5 males and 5 females. The average age was 45, range 17 to 74. The diagnosis was adenocarcinoma of the breast 4 cases, Hodgkin's disease 3, cancer of the lung 1, cancer of the prostate 1, and cancer of the pancreas and omentum 1. Metastases were present in all cases.

Pain was a prominent symptom in all 10 cases and 7 patients required narcotics for relief.

Adenopathy was present in all cases and fetor in 1.

The average period of treatment with Laetrile was 17.5 weeks, range 4 to 43; average number of slow intravenous injections 30.2, range 6 to 79; average total dosage 46.2 Gm., range 9 to 133.

RESULTS OF TREATMENT
Dramatic relief of pain resulted in all 10 cases after the first or second slow intravenous injection and continued throughout the course of treatment. In 5 cases pain disappeared completely and in the other 5 it was definitely reduced. Narcotics were discontinued in 5 of the 7 cases in which they were used.

After 7 injections the fetor from an ulcerating adenocarcinoma of the breast disappeared and the discharge ceased.

Adenopathy was considerably reduced in 8 of the 10 cases in which it was present.

HEMOGRAM AND URINALYSIS
In all-cases except #4 and #8, the blood picture was greatly improved after use of Laetrile. There was no indication of agranulocytosis or other hematogenous toxicity.

The average red blood cell count before treatment was 3,941,000, after treatment 4,515,000 (15% increase). The average white blood cell count before treatment was 10,200, after treatment 9,750 (2% decrease, statistically insignificant). The average hemoglobin before treatment was 11.65 Gm. per 100 cc., after treatment 12.4 (6% increase). The before and after differential blood counts showed no significant changes and no abnormal blood cells were found.

Urinalysis was negative. Kidney function was not altered or affected by the use of Laetrile.

DISCUSSION
Laetrile is not a general analgesic per se, although on hydrolysis it releases a small amount of benzoic acid which is analgesic. Therefore the consistent relief of pain and discontinuance of narcotics after one or two injections, lasting throughout the course of treatment, are significant results. The sudden disappearance of fetor and discharge from ulcerating adenocarcinoma of the breast and reduction of adenopathy are also encouraging.

It would appear that Laetrile injections cause a regression of the malignant lesion. More cases and a follow-up study are required to evaluate the degree and permanence of this result. The findings present an image of cancer which is consistent with the trophoblastic thesis.

CASE REPORTS
Case 1. W.L., age 62, female, married, housewife, weight 118 lb., height 62 in., blood pressure 144/95 mm. Diagnosis: adenocarcinoma of both breasts with metastases to the skull, pelvis and spine. There was bilateral inguinal adenopathy. History of bilateral mastectomy, eighteen years apart, followed by deep X-ray therapy. Urinalysis and hematology negative.

During the last six months the patient had suffered from constant excruciating pain in the back, entire spinal region, pelvis, thighs and legs. She was unable to lie down and tried to sleep in a chair. Repeated doses of codeine and other analgesics every two or three hours were required.

Laetrile 1 Gm. was injected intravenously. In five minutes the systolic blood pressure dropped 12 mm. but there were no other apparent effects. The following day the patient walked into my office without aid and reported that she had slept well with very little pain, that she needed less codeine, and that her appetite was good. Her general appearance was greatly improved.

An injection of Laetrile 1 Gm. was repeated. The systolic blood pressure fell 10 mm, but there were no apparent side-effects. After ten minutes she said that pain was relieved completely and stepped down from the examining table without help.

In a period of one month she received six injections of Laetrile, four of 1 Gm. and two of 2 Gm. In each instance there was a prompt fall of blood pressure, average 10.4 mm., range 8-12 mm.

During the period of treatment the patient returned to her housework, was almost free from pain, discontinued codeine, took no analgesics other than 10 grains of aspirin at bedtime or during the night, and slept well. Her morale was excellent, her appetite good, and she gained 31/2 lb. At the last examination she reported that she was completely free from pain. There were no apparent adverse effects from any of the injections. As of May 1, 1962 the hemogram showed distinct improvement in red blood cell count and hemoglobin, with no adverse change. Urinalysis was negative.

Case 2. J.S., age 74, male, married, pattern maker, weight 163 lb, height 62 in., blood pressure 188/100 mm. Diagnosis: inoperable carcinoma of the left lung with metastasis to the mediastinum. Urinalysis and hematology negative.

During the last six months the patient complained of cough, constant chest pain, dyspnea, blood-tinged expectoration, anorexia, and loss of weight (15 lbs.). An X-ray revealed a mass in the left side of the chest suggestive of a neoplasm. Bronchoscopy and a biopsy established the diagnosis of carcinoma of the lung. Exploratory thoracotomy showed extensive carcinoma of the left lung with metastases and many perforations in the pleura, diaphragm, aorta, pericardium and mediastinum. The condition was considered inoperable.

Pain was so constant and severe that the patient took meperidine hydrochloride and codeine every two or three hours. When interviewed, he had such great difficulty in talking and breathing that his wife had to give the history.

Physical examination revealed icteric sclerae, pallid conjunctivae, sluggish reflexes, enlarged and tender cervical and supraclavicular glands, dullness and moist rales over the left of the chest, and edema of the ankles extending up to the knees.

Laetrile 1 Gm. was injected intravenously. In five minutes the systolic blood pressure dropped 28 mm., but there were no signs of shock or other adverse effects. Three days later the patient reported that the pain had been less severe since the injection, but that he had suffered for two days from pain in the left shoulder and side of the chest. Analgesics were still required.

After the second intravenous injection of Laetrile 1 Gm., the systolic blood pressure fell 15 mm. but there were no side-effects other than burning and itching in the left shoulder area. One week later the patient returned to the office unassisted. Pain, dyspnea and edema were considerably diminished. His color and general appearance were considerably improved.

In a period of seven weeks he received sixteen injections of Laetrile, seven of 1 Gm., six of 1.5 Gm., and three of 2 Gm. There was a prompt fall of blood pressure following the injections, ranging from 8 to 28 mm. Pain was reduced and appetite improved but there was no weight gain. He was able to discontinue use of meperidine hydrochloride and codeine. There were no apparent adverse effects from the injections as shown by the before and after hemograms and urinalyses.

Case 3. J.C., age 40, female, married, house-wife, weight 113 lb., height 61 in, blood pressure 140/90 mm. Diagnosis: infiltrating carcinoma of the left breast invading the lymphnodes at all levels of the axilla, with metastases to the liver. Radical mastectomy and deep X-ray therapy. Urinalysis and hematology negative.

For the last six months she had suffered from very severe pain in the abdomen and back. Meperidine hydrochloride, morphine and opium were required for relief.

Laetrile 1 Gm. was injected intravenously. In five minutes the systolic blood pressure dropped 10 mm. but there were no other apparent effects. She returned the following day and reported no relief of pain.

An intravenous injection of Laetrile 1 Gm. was repeated, following when the systolic blood pressure dropped 12 mm. There was considerable reduction of pain and appetite improved after this injection.

In a period of four weeks she received twelve injections of Laetrile, ten of 1 Gm. and two of 1.5 Gm. Pain was relieved almost entirely and only a single dose of narcotic drug at bedtime was required. Morale and appetite were improved but there was no gain in weight. There were no apparent adverse effects from the injections. Comparison of before and after hemograms showed improvement in the red blood cell count and hemoglobin following Laetrile therapy.

Case 4. J.F., age 38, female, married house-wife, weight 155 lb., height 62 in., blood pressure 160/90 mm. Diagnosis: adenocarcinoma of left breast with carcinomatosis. Mastectomy, deep X-ray therapy and castration. Urinalysis and hematology negative.

The patient complained of agonizing pain in her spine, chest, pelvis, legs, arms and head. X-ray visualization confirmed the diagnosis of disseminated metastases. Adenopathy was present. Codeine, meperidine hydrochloride and opium were required to control the pain.

Laetrile 1 Gm. was injected intravenously. After fifteen minutes the systolic blood pressure rose 3 mm. There were no apparent side-effects. On the following day pain was reduced, appetite improved, and the general condition was somewhat better.

A second intravenous injection of Laetrile 1 Gm. was given. In five minutes the systolic blood pressure dropped 16 mm. but there were no apparent side-effects. Three days later the patient reported that the pain was considerably less and she required a minimum dosage of opiates for relief.

In a period of eighteen days she received eight injections of Laetrile, five of 1 Gm., two of 1.5 Gm and 1 of 2 Gm. During the period of medication she showed progressive improvement and suffered very little pain. Opiates were no longer required. Morale was excellent. There were no apparent adverse effects from the injections. Comparison of before and after hemograms showed improvement in the red blood cell count and hemoglobin following Laetrile therapy.

Case 5. R.F., age 20, male, single, premedical student, weight 200 lb., height 59 in., blood pressure 114/70 mm. Diagnosis: malignant lymphoma, type Hodgkin's. Condition started as enlarged cervical gland, diagnosis on biopsy. Urinalysis negative, hemoglobin 11 Gm./100cc.

Deep X-ray therapy was employed. The patient complained of weakness, dizziness, and pain in the axillae and groin. The cervical, axillary and inguinal glands were palpably enlarged. The conjunctivae and sclerae were pale and icteric.

Laetrile 1 Gm. was injected intravenously. In ten minutes the systolic blood pressure dropped 6 mm. but there were no other apparent effects. Four days later the patient reported that he felt more active, had a better appetite, and had suffered no ill-effects.

An injection of Laetrile 1Gm. was repeated. The systolic blood pressure dropped 4 mm. in ten minutes, no other apparent effects.

In a period of four and a half months he received nineteen injections of Laetrile, five of 1 Gm. and fourteen of 2 Gm.

During the period of medication the pains in the neck and groin ceased and the adenopathy disappeared. The patient felt euphoric and his general appearance was considerably improved. There were no apparent adverse effects from the injections. The blood picture improved after Laetrile therapy.

Case 6. L.D., age 47, female, single, draftsman, weight 190 lb., height 66 in., blood pressure 280/110 mm. Diagnosis infiltrating adenocarcinoma of left breast. Both her mother and sister had died of cancer. History of radical mastectomy. Metastases in left axilla broke down, producing multiple sinuses.

The principal complaints were severe pain in the left side of the chest, necessitating the use of codeine, and a foul odor from the discharging sinuses. To control her distressing cough it was necessary to prescribe meperidine hydrochloride and opium for use on alternate days.

The left shoulder and arm were swollen and painful. The skin was glistening red. The circumference of the left mid-arm measured 19 ¾ ins. as compared with 13 ins. for the right. Adenopathy was present in the entire left axillary and supraclavicular areas, both sides of the neck, and in the right breast. The liver was palpable and tender. Both sides of the chest were tender and especially painful on coughing.

Laetrile 1 Gm. was injected intravenously. In five minutes the systolic blood pressure dropped 38 mm. but there were no apparent other effects. On the following day she received a second injection. Pain and cough diminished and there was less discharge from the axillary sinuses. However, she felt a sense of heat and itching in the operative area. After the third injection pain was relieved completely and the fetor disappeared. After the fourth injection, the drainage ceased completely and the area was odorless. Multiple crusts covered the healing sinuses. Induration and inflammation were almost completely gone. The texture of the skin of the left arm had returned to normal.

In a period of five months she received fifty injections of Laetrile, nine of 1 Gm., thirty-nine of 2 Gm., and two of 2.5 Gm. The immediate hypotensive response was easily controlled when phenylephrine hydrochloride 0.3 mg. Was used simultaneously with Laetrile.

During the period of treatment the patient returned to work. Pain and cough disappeared. The discharge from the metastatic sinuses ceased and there was no more fetor. The circumference of the left mid-arm was reduced from 19 3/4 in. to 17 in., an indication of less tumefaction. Narcotics for relief of pain and cough were no longer required. There were no apparent adverse effects from any of the injections.

In this case treatment with Laetrile was continued from July 7, 1961 until May 1962. In the extended period of ten months the patient received 133 injections, twice a week or more often. Comparison of before and after hemograms showed definite improvement in the red blood cell counts and hemoglobin. Adenopathy and tumefaction regressed to a considerable extent.

Case 7. G.P., age 21, male, single, college student, weight 149 lb., height 70 in., blood pressure 110/70 mm. Diagnosis: malignant lymphoma, Hodgkins type. Urinalysis and hematology negative.

A growing mass in front of the right ear, which returned four years after its initial appearance and recession, was removed and found to contain multinucleated giant cells typical of Hodgkin's disease. There was a hard, tender, enlarged lymph node in the mid-sternocleidomastoid region measuring 3x2cm. Urinalysis and liematology were negative.

Laetrile 1 Gm. was injected intravenously. The systolic blood pressure dropped 4 mm. but there were no apparent side-effects. Three days later the enlarged gland was smaller, softer, and less painful. By the sixth day all pain had ceased.

In a period of four months he received twenty-seven injections of Laetrile, ten of 1Gm. and seventeen of 2 Gm. There were no side-effects. One injection, made directly into the tumor mass, was followed by itching and local tenderness.

During the period of treatment the patient returned to college. Pain was absent, appetite good, weight increased 13 lb., and his appearance was excellent. The blood picture improved under Laetrile therapy.

Case 8. A.T., age 66, male, married, fireman, weight 120 lb., height 68 in., blood pressure 188/98 mm.. Diagnosis inoperable carcinoma of the prostate with possible metastasis to the liver. hemoglobin 10 Gm./100 cc.

The patient complained of nocturia hematuria, nausea vomiting, and severe pain in the groin and thighs. Codeine and meperidine hydrochloride were required for relief. The skin and sclerac were jaundiced. There was painful adenopathy in both groins.

Laetrile 1 Gm. was injected intravenously. In seven minutes the blood pressure dropped 68 mm. and the skin became cold and clammy. The patient appeared to be in incipient shock but responded promptly to an injection of phenylephrine hydrochloride, after which his blood pressure recovered 66 mm.

Next day an injection of Laetrile 1 Gm. was repeated. His systolic blood pressure dropped 10 mm. but there was no shock reaction. Following the second injection the pain ceased and the use of narcotics was no longer needed. Nausea and vomiting were relieved, and jaundice was reduced.

In a period of four days he received three injections of Laetrile 1 Gm. During this time there was no pain and narcotic drugs were discontinued. Bleeding from the bladder ceased. Nausea and vomiting were relieved, and jaundice was diminished. Before and after hemograms and urinalyses showed no change.

Case 9. M.T., age 65, female, married, housewife, weight 110 lb., height 66 in., blood pressure 160/90 mm. Diagnosis: adenocarcinoma of the pancreas and omentum. Hemoglobin 11.5 Gm./100cc. The liver was palpable and painful nodules extended to about 3 inches below the costal margin.

During the last seven months she had suffered from extreme pain and had lost 20 lb. Meperidine hydrochloride was required for relief. She was exceedingly weak, jaundiced, emaciated, and unable to stand without assistance.

Laetrile 1 Gm. was injected intravenously. There were no adverse effects. A second injection was given four days later.

Pain was partially relieved and the dosage of meperidine hydrochloride was reduced. The blood picture and urinalysis showed no change under Laetrile therapy.

Case 10. F.F- Age 17, male, single, student. weight 140 lb., height 71 in., blood pressure 110/70. Diagnosis: Hodgkin's disease, granuloma type, with metastasis to the thorax.

During the last three months a growing mass in the left supraclavicular region had reached the size of a quarter sphere of an average orange. The patient complained of pain in both axillae, weakness, nausea and anorexia. He had lost 25lb. and was jaundiced. Biopsy confirmed the diagnosis. The axillary lymph glands were enlarged, especially on the right side. The roentgenograms showed progressive nodal enlargement inside the thorax.

Laetrile 1 Gm. was injected intravenously. In five minutes the systolic blood pressure dropped 6 mm. but there were no apparent other effects.

On examination two days later the mass in the neck was softer and smaller. By the fifth day it was reduced to about half the original size, and was softer and movable. The axillary lymph glands were barely palpable. He was free from pain and his appetite had returned.

In a period of five months he received thirty-six injections of Laetrile, nineteen of 1 Gm. and seventeen of 2 Gm. There were no side-effects.

During the period of treatment there was no pain and no enlargement of the supraclavicular mass occurred. Appetite improved and the patient gained 24 lb. He returned to his studies. Comparison of before and after hemograms showed distinct improvement in the red blood cell count and hemoglobin.

SUMMARY
The use of Laetrile (1-mandelonitrile-beta-glycuronoside), a beta cyanogenetic glucoside, intravenously in 10 cases of inoperable cancer, all with metastases, provided dramatic relief of pain, discontinuance of narcotics, control of fetor, improved appetite, and reduction of adenopathy. The results suggest regression of the malignant lesion.

A fall of blood pressure occurred in all cases after administration of Laetrile. This side-effect was easily avoided by using phenylephrine hydrochloride 0.3-1 mg. in the same syringe with the Laetrile solution. No other side-effects were noted except slight itching and a sensation of heat in the affected areas, which was transitory in all cases.

Comparison of before and after hemograms showed definite improvement in the red blood cell count and hemoglobin in most cases. Differential blood counts and urinalyses were entirely negative.

Ettore Guidetti
Professor of Pharmacology
University of Turin Medical School
Presented at the Sixth International Cancer Congress, Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 1954

CONCLUSION OF TRIALS WITH LAETRILE
One can recognise that topical treatment with cyanogenetic glycuronoside, otherwise known as Laetrile, of certain directly accessible human cancers produces lytic and destructive effects on neoplastic tissues, due to a mechanism of enzyme action, and as a result, one can consider the usefulness of this medical treatment for human cancers of the rectum, the neck of the womb and ulcerated cancers of the breast.

CLINICAL TRIAL OF CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC TREATMENT OF ADVANCED CANCERS WITH LAETRILE (L-MANDELONITRILE-BETA-DIGLUCOSIDE)

Benedetto Rossi
Ettore Guidetti
And
Christian Deckers
Presented at the 9th International Cancer Congress in Tokyo, October 1966

From 1954 to 1966 we gave 150 patients the above-mentioned therapy, chiefly at San Cottolengo Hospital, Turin; Dosio Hospital, Milan; and Louvain University Cancer Institute. All patients were in the terminal stage of the disease, the majority of them prey to cachezia, and all other therapies had failed.

The following table summarizes the cases treated, classified according to the site of the tumor, and showing the number of patients for each degree of reaction to therapy. We use the sign ++ to denote patients who reacted in an objectively favorable manner, by which we mean diminution of volume of the tumor or at least all interruption of its evolution, improvement in the roentgenographic picture, and improvement in laboratory findings. The mark + and + indicates patients who showed a more or less distinct subjective improvement, and the mark - those who reacted negatively to the treatment.

Cases corresponding to ++ represent about 20% of those treated.

We again underline the fact that the majority of these cases were simultaneously subjected to an immunotype therapy, which might have some bearing on the number of positive results observed, grouped under the signs+ + and + totalling about half the number of cases treated.

We have separately considered neoplasms of the pleura with effusion (15 cases), where the product was used direct by injection in the pleural cavity. In these cases we observed our best results, as generally we obtained reduction and then on occasion complete disappearance of the effusion, associated with a distinct improvement in the patients' condition.

CONCLUSION
On the basis of our clinical trial, we are able to state that l-mandelonitrile-beta-diglucoside may be considered an extremely useful chemotherapeutic drug for palliative medical treatment of malign neoplasms, from the standpoint both of its therapeutic effect and its very low toxicity.

One of us tested the product on the cancerous cell (Ehrlich's ascites), taking as standard the inhibition of breathing measured by Warburg's method. We were able to confirm production of HCN and benzaldehyde, both toxic on the cancer cell. Presence of beta-glucosidase is essential for break-up of the product.

ORIGINAL STUDIES
by Ernst T. Krebs, Jr.

Over a three decades ago, clinical investigation of then empirical extracts from apricot kernels (prunus armeniaca) was commenced because of evidence of some anti-neoplastic activity in animals. In humans this extract proved to be palliative in human cancer. Further study showed the responsible factor to be the nitriloside amygdalin. This nitriloside (Laetrile) was then chosen as the subject for systematic clinical investigation after its lack of immediate or cumulative toxicity was demonstrated on experimental animals.

The doses of the nitriloside standardized for human use range from about 12.5 mg/kg to 37.5 mg/kg of the nitriloside. These doses supply from 0.8 mg/kg of the HCN ion. Doses as high as 20 grams or more intravenously have been shown to be without toxic effect in healthy human subjects, though a mildly hypotensive effect is produced through the thiocyanate engendered by such large doses. It appears that the 0.8 mg/kg (equivalent to a dose of 1.0 gram of the nitriloside in a 70 kg patient) is generally optimal.

Brown, Wood and Smith in their studies on sodium cyanide in mice bearing Sarcoma 180 found experimentally that 0.8 mg./kg of the CN ion was the optimal dose in contributing a life-extension of as high as 70 per cent to not only these mice but to another strain bearing Ehrlich's ascites cell tumors. Not only did such doses lack cumulative toxicity; but the controls not receiving the cyanide obviously experienced a 70 per cent shorter lifespan.

Brown et al. were unaware of any work on nitriloside during the period they made their studies; yet the optimal dosage of the nitrile ion they arrived at from studies on cancer animals is identical to the optimal dose determined for clinical use for nitriloside (Laetrile) by many clinical investigators working over the course of a decade while gradually scaling their original doses of 50mg of the nitriloside to the present dose of 1,000 mg and altering the route of administration from intramuscular one to an intravenous one. Brown et al observed:

"Because the action of… cyanide is almost instantaneous and since normal tissues and cells are capable of recovering from its noxious effects, it could be anticipated here that there would be no cumulative or latent complications in the bone marrow, the gastrointestinal tract, or the renal apparatus."

Clinical experience with approximately 100,000 parenteral doses of nitriloside in man over a decade of study have sustained Brown's original findings on the non-toxicity of the CN ion administered within the capacity of the rhodanese system. Administration of the ion in the form of nitriloside of course provides an optimal concentration of the ion in a safe and self-limiting fashion - self-limitation being the characteristic of the action of accessory food factors.

Maxwell and Bischoff in 1933, in studying the possible cumulative effect of HCN in mice, reported:

"After twenty-one days of exposure to HCN, the red blood cell count and the hemoglobin rose in the mice 12 to 15 per cent, and in the rats, 20 to 25 per cent."

Their experience has been confirmed repeatedly by clinicians studying the action of Laetrile (nitriloside) in advanced cases of human cancer where the nitriloside-derived HCN has produced a substantial stimulation in hemopoiesis even in some terminal patients.

In 1935, Isabella Perry of the Department of Pathology, University of California Medical School, reported on the study of "The Effects of Prolonged Cyanide Treatment on the Body and Tumor Growth in Rate" (American Journal of Cancer, 25:592). Reporting the action of prolonged inhalation of cyanide fumes in young tumor-bearing rats, she wrote:

"…Retards the growth of Jensen sarcoma implants. A considerable percentage of the animals so treated showed complete regression of the tumor. Both regressing and growing tumors in treated animals had little capacity for transplantation… The dose was given on strips of blotter paper…It seems that the range of the effective dose is limited and too close to the lethal dose to be practical."

The administration of CN ion through non-toxic nitrilosides eliminates the limitation. Perry observed that:

"In the treated animals the tumors grew slowly and necrosed early. Ten days after the inoculation, the tumors in 9 treated rats averaged 0.5 cm in diameter, while the 8 control rats had tumors averaging 2.2 cm in diameter. On the twenty-fifth day after the tumors had been inoculated and fifteen days after the cyanide treatment was discontinued, 5 treated survivors had tumors averaging 2.5 cm in diameter, while the tumors in the control animals averaged 8 cm in diameter."

Of the control rats bearing Jensen sarcoma, 8 had died and only one was surviving on the 34th day after inoculation. By the 105th day, 6 treated rats that had received the same implantation were still alive and showed extensive tumor regression. Such residues which remained were untransplantable. Thus treated by the inhalation of HCN gas, with all its attendant dangers, rats bearing Jensen sarcoma transplanted often showed not only complete tumor regression but an average life extension in excess of 300 per cent.

These observations have been substantiated clinically with the nitriloside-derived CN ion of Laetrile and without any evidence of toxicity and no side-effect except the increase in red blood cell count and hemoglobin first observed in 1933 by Maxwell & Bischoff in mice receiving cyanide ions.

Clinical investigation of parenteral nitriloside (Laetrile) at four universities' medical schools over the past decade have confirmed the animal studies reporting a specific chemotherapeutic effect of the CN ion in cancer. Professor M. D. Navarro of the University of St. Thomas Medical School has observed such effects for Laetrile (nitriloside) over a period of twelve years.

One gram of Laetrile (nitriloside) treated with beta-glucosidase derived from the tissues of experimental animals (with or without cancer) supplies 56 mg of HCN. This HCN may be administered through inhalation to cancer animals as in the case of Perry's studies. It may be neutralized with NaOH, to form sodium cyanide and then so administered as in the case of the work by Brown et al who found that 0.8 mg/kg of the cyanide ion provided a 70 per cent life extension in experimental animals and an apparently complete regression in spontaneous cancer in dogs as well as substantial palliation in some human cases. Under experimental conditions, Laetrile (nitriloside) has been hydrolyzed by a few drops of beta-glucosidase to a solution of free HCN, sugar and benzaldehyde. In this state the material, of course, becomes as toxic as the materials used by Brown et al, Perry, Maxwell & Bischoff and others and provides the same action as such.

VITAMIN B17 USE NOT SUPPORTED BY DATA?

GUIDETTI, ETTORE
Observations Preliminaires Sur Quelques Cas de Cancer Traites Par Un Glycuronoside Cyanogenetique. Acta Unio Internationalis Contra Cancrum, XI (No. 2): 156-158 (1955). Read at the Sixth International Cancer Congress, Sao Paulo, July, 1954. (pp) Edizioni Minerva Medica (1958). Med., 9; 468-471 (1954)

TASCA, MARCO
Osservazioni Cliniche Sugli Effetti Terapeutici ci un Glicuronoside cianogenetico in Casi di Neoplasie Maligne Umane. Gazzetta Medica Italiana (19 pp.) Edizioni Minerva Medica. (1958)

NAVARRO, MANUEL D.

• Laetrile - The Ideal Anti-Cancer Drug? Santo Tomas J. Med., 9:468-471 (1954)
  
• Laetrile in Malignancy. Santo Tomas J. Med., 10:113-118 (1955).
  
• D. STA. ANA, J. ZANTUA and G. MORAL, Metastatic Pulmonary Carcinoma Treated with Laetrile (Report of a Case), Unitas, 28:606-618 (1955)
  
• and C. L. LAGMAN, Breast Carcinoma with Lung and Bone Metastases Treated with Laetrile (Case Report), Santo Tomas J. Med., 11: 196-203 (1956); J. Philippine Med. Assn.,33:16-29 (1957)
  
• Biochemistry of Laetrile Therapy in Cancer, Papyrus 1:8-9, 27-28 (1957)
  
• Mechanism of Action and Therapeutic Effects of Laetrile in Cancer. J. Philippine Med. Assn., 33:620-627 (1957)

G. GAMEZ, A. DIZON, A. PEREZ, L. MARANAN, and S. ALVAREZ

• Chemotherapy of Cancer, Laetrile in Cancers of the Throat, Philippine J. of Cancer 1: 131-137 (1957)
  
• Five Years Experience with Laetrile Therapy in Advanced Cancer, Acta Unio internationalis Contra Cancrum, XV (bis):209-221 (1959). Read at the Symposium on Cancer Chemotherapy for Pacific Asian Area, International Union Against Cancer, Tokyo, October 1957.
  
• Report on Proceedings of International Symposium on Cancer Chemotherapy at Tokyo, October 1957, Santo Tomas J. med., 12:244-453 (1957)

F. G.GUERRERO and R. SIN

• Laetrile Therapy of Breast Cancer. Santo Tomas J. Med., 13:29-36 (1958)
  
• Biochemical Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer, Unitas, 31 (No. 2) 76 pp. (1958). Republished as a book, Manila, Univ. of Santo Tomas Press, 1958

NAVARRO, R.P.

• The Use of the Beard Anthrone Test in Certain Cases Inaccessible to or with Doubtful or Negative Biopsy. Philippine J. of Cancer, 2:123-136 (1958)
  
• Early Cancer Diagnosis with the Beard Anthrone Test (Navarro's Modification), Philippine J. of Cancer, 2:285-304 1958); Acta Unio Internationalis Contra Cancrum, XVI: 1482-1491 (1960). Read at the Seventh International Cancer Congress, London, July 1958
  
• The Unitarian or Trophoblastic Thesis of Cancer, Philippine J. of Cancer 3:3-11 (1959)
  
• Early Cancer Detection - A Biochemical Approach, Santo Tomas J. Med., 15:111-129 (1960)
  
• The Role of the Chemotherapeutic Agents in Cancer. Bulletin of the Quezon Institute, 1960. Read at Seminar of the Quezon Institute, Santo Tomas J. Med., 15: 443-450 (1960)
  
• Early Cancer Detection. J. Philippine Med. Assn., 36:425-432 (1960)
  
• Laetrile Therapy in Cancer. Read at the Eighth International Cancer Congress, Moscow, U.S.S.R. July 1962, The Philippine Journal of Cancer, July-Sept., 1962

MORRONE, JOHN A.

• Chemotherapy of Inoperable Cancer. Preliminary Report of Ten Cases Treated with Laetrile (nitriloside), Experimental Medicine and Surgery, #4, 1962

KREBS, ERNST T., JR., and N. R. BOUZIANE,

• Beta-Cyanophoric Glucuronosides and Glucosides (Nitrilosides). Their Rationale and Clinical Utilization in Human Cancer. In Press.

RESTIFO, J. A. and M. A. GAMA

• The Use of Laetrile (Nitriloside) in the Treatment of Cancer, with Case Reports. In M.S. (1962)

ROSSI, BENEDETTO; GUIDETTI, ETTORE and DECKERS, CHRISTIAN

• Clinical Trial of Chemotherapeutic Treatment of Advanced Cancers with l-Mandelonitrile-Beta-Diglucoside. Presented at the Ninth International Cancer Congress in Tokyo, October 1966.

HARRIS ARTHUR T.

• Possible Palliative Value of Laetrile in Human Cancer. A Preliminary Report (1953). In M.S.

BEASLEY, H. EARLE

• Twenty Months' Review of the Effects of Laetrile in the Palliative Treatment of Cancer (1954). Read before the American College of Osteopathic Internists Convention at Philadelphia, 1954

The foregoing references, without exception and including those from the world's most prestigious journals in the field of oncology, are positive reports on the safety and effectiveness of Laetrile (nitriloside), and describe completely non-toxic palliation and other beneficial effects of Laetrile (nitriloside) in abolishing pain and fetor where present, decreasing and eliminating the need for narcotics, and extending life-expectancy of cancer patients left terminal by surgery and/or radiation.

For the completeness of this bibliography, I also cite the single negative report on Laetrile, published ten years ago and obviously designed to disparage continued study or investigational use of Laetrile. The said single negative report on Laetrile, which is based upon the observations of unidentified investigators in unidentified institutions administering a purported "Laetrile" not obtained from the only source of the material, is to be found in California Medicine, 78:320 (1953).

CONCLUSION
The reader must make up their mind what one may call deliberate obfuscation and misreporting of a treatment that has clinically been shown to prolong lives. Bear in mind, the majority of the foregoing trials occurred forty to fifty years ago. Since then, a deadly war of disinformation has been waged deliberately disparaging such natural chemotherapeutics in favour of the devastation of chemical chemos, almost all of which are carcinogens, some of which, like Alkeran, are former chemical warfare agents given new legs in the field of oncopharmacology.

Who are the ones really guilty of Professor's Ernst's so-called 'criminal' activity?

Further Resources:

Cancer: Why We're Still Dying to Know the Truth by Phillip Day
B17 Metabolic Therapy compiled by Phillip Day
Great News on Cancer in the 21st Century by Steve Ransom

Informed Consent?
More Problems with Chemo and Radiotherapy
by Phillip Day

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 600,000 people are expected to die from cancer in America in 2004, 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."

The 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 virus-related. Others believe the cause is parasites. Others yet examine the environmental causal link.

Let's look at what society generally knows about cancer and see how it stacks up with the truth. Most believe that:

• Cancer is a serious disease that kills those suffering from the life-threatening variants, such as lung, breast, bone, colorectal and liver.
  
• Cancer can only be treated with chemotherapy, radiation treatments and radical surgeries to poison or break up tumours, or physically remove them altogether.
  
• These cancer treatments sometimes work and sometimes don't. No one can be sure who will survive and who won't.
  
• Cancer is caused by genetics, smoking, and other less well understood or known environmental causes.
  
• We still don't have the cure for cancer.
  
• The cancer charities and famous pop and TV stars are doing a superb job raising money to help with the drug research to combat and defeat cancer.
  
• Cancer appears to be a complex disturbance of cells in our bodies which mutate and then begin an uncontrollable proliferation. No one really knows what cancer is at the moment.

During the twelve years that I and my fellow researchers conducted our investigation into the cancer industry, what we found dispelled any illusions that cancer medicine was working in any way for the benefit of humanity. Here is what we found:

• The proof behind what cancer actually is and how to combat it effectively has been known for almost a century.
  
• Cancer is a healing process that hasn't terminated upon completion of its task.
  
• Cancer cells are pre-embryonic stem cells that have been stimulated by estrogen in our bodies to form trophoblast healing cells. It is these trophoblast cells that may progress to form 'cancer' cells if the trophoblastic multiplication of these cells (the healing process) is not halted.
  
• These rogue healing processes are started when our bodies become damaged in various ways. For instance, smoking damages the back of the throat and the lungs, resulting in site-specific healing processes that may or may not stop. Viruses, bacteria, mobile phones, physical blows, a toxic environment and chemical causations can all initiate healing processes in our bodies. In the event that a healing process is not terminated, healing trophoblast cells continue to proliferate to form a tumour.
  
• All cancers can be traced to ENVIRONMENTAL- OR LIFESTYLE-RELATED CAUSATIONS that damage our bodies, initiating a healing process that may not stop. We can say 'ALL' because there are at least 18 different peoples on Earth today who do not suffer from cancer. Many of these cannot record even one victim of the disease in their entire culture. By this definition, cancer can be deemed preventable.
  
• The reasons why these peoples do not contract cancer are entirely known, yet this information, and the top researchers who discovered it, have been deliberately vilified by the mainstream science establishment.
  
• Orthodox medicine has waged an effective and relentless war against this life-saving knowledge to prevent its widespread dissemination and thus forestall an attack on the highly profitable cancer industry. There are more people today making a living out of cancer than are dying from it. The cancer industry turns over in excess of $200 billion annually.
  
• Cancer charities are fund-raising institutions for the pharmaceutical combines whose livelihoods depend on the continuance of cancer. Thus we see all efforts made to wage the war on cancer, not win it. In the event that cancer were vanquished, millions around the world would need to retrain. Cancer charities have no interest in knowing the truth about cancer - my organisation can vouch for that. Their job is to raise as much money as possible through the emotional showcasing of the heart-rending consequences of cancer, thereby stimulating the public to give more money.
  
• There is no evidence that chemotherapy and radiation treatments extend life in the major epithelial cancers, which are the majority of the cancers striking us today, although these two treatments can and do sometimes effect a reduction in tumour size. In a small minority of cases, as with some testicular and childhood cancers, efficacy with these treatments may be shown. Radiation and chemotherapy on the other hand have long been known to compromise the body's immune system, leading to the progressive degradation of the patient's health.
  
• Chemotherapy drugs are cytotoxic, meaning that they indiscriminately poison the cells in our body that multiply the most rapidly (cancer cells). However, certain immune system cells, such as our T and B lymphocytes, are also targeted, as these multiply rapidly too, contributing to our body's inability to fight opportunistic diseases that may come upon us as a result of the treatment.
  
• Radiations treatments harm the body, often leading to the production of more healing trophoblast. Radiation has been recognised to foster aggressive cell lines and in certain cases actually accelerate tumour growth.
  
• Cancer is a chronic, metabolic deficiency disease that is exacerbated by a) poor immunity, b) fungal infestations, and c) general mineral depletion in the food chain, including the missing B17-nitriloside dietary element. Cultures, whose diets are rich in essential nutrients and the nitrilosides, suffer no cancer in their peoples, provided they are living in toxin-free environments.

THE POLITICS OF BIG CANCER AND THE
FAILURE OF CONVENTIONAL TREATMENTS
Let's review some startling comments made by insiders to illustrate the point that the shameful corporate story surrounding cancer has long been known and written about by honest physicians who see major mischief afoot. Also included in this section is the compelling truth that conventional cancer treatments are not extending life in the major cancers striking us.

One such leading critic of the cancer industry has been Dr Samuel S Epstein, chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition and a world-renowned toxicologist and Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago. Epstein's relentless attacks against corporate vested interests in the chemical and medical industries concerning the avoidable causes of cancer have led to the public gaining a far wider knowledge of these issues. Epstein has no hesitation in indicting 'Cancer Inc.', comprising the American Medical Association, the National Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society (ACS), the cancer charities and the pharmaceutical industry, as well as other cancer administrative bodies elsewhere in the world, for losing the winnable war against cancer. Epstein contends:

"We are not winning the war against cancer, we are losing the war. The number of Americans getting cancer each year has escalated over recent decades, while our ability to treat and cure most common cancers has remained virtually unchanged.

The National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society have misled and confused the public and Congress by repeated false claims that we are winning the war against cancer - claims made to create public and Congressional support for massive increases in budgetary allocations."

Quentin D Young, MD, president of the American Public Health Association, agrees with Epstein and highlights the chief environmental causes of cancer, which must be addressed if we are to turn the tide on the disease:

"Billions of public dollars are being misspent in an ill-conceived 'war on cancer' - a war we are losing because we are not addressing the increasingly carcinogenic environment that man has created. We have introduced these creations into our water and air, our food chain, our habitation, our workplace, and into the products produced there. In failing to allocate these resources for prevention, we are fighting the wrong war."

John Cairns, professor of microbiology at Harvard University, recorded in his scathing 1985 critique in Scientific American: "Aside from certain rare cancers, it is not possible to detect any sudden changes in the death rates for any of the major cancers that could be credited to chemotherapy. Whether any of the common cancers can be cured by chemotherapy has yet to be established."

Making the point that chemotherapy is not curative, and actually has very little effect on the major cancers, Dr Martin F Shapiro stated in the Los Angeles Times that "...while some oncologists inform their patients of the lack of evidence that treatments work... others may well be misled by scientific papers that express unwarranted optimism about chemotherapy. Still others respond to an economic incentive. Physicians can earn much more money running active chemotherapy practices than they can providing solace and relief... to dying patients and their families."

Alan C Nixon, PhD, erstwhile president of the American Chemical Society, declares that "...as a chemist trained to interpret data, it is incomprehensible to me that physicians can ignore the clear evidence that chemotherapy does much, much more harm than good."

Oncologist Albert Braverman MD told the world in 1991 that "...no disseminated neoplasm (cancer) incurable in 1975 is curable today... Many medical oncologists recommend chemotherapy for virtually any tumor, with a hopefulness undiscouraged by almost invariable failure."

Christian Brothers, a retail organisation forcefully shut down by the American Food & Drug Administration (FDA) in 2000 and its CEO jailed, states: "In 1986, McGill Cancer Center scientists sent a questionnaire to 118 doctors who treated non-small-cell lung cancer. More than 3/4 of them recruited patients and carried out trials of toxic drugs for lung cancer. They were asked to imagine that they themselves had cancer, and were asked which of six current trials they themselves would choose. 64 of the 79 respondents would not consent to be in a trial containing cisplatin, a common chemotherapy drug. Fifty-eight found all the trials unacceptable. Their reason? The ineffectiveness of chemotherapy and its unacceptable degree of toxicity."

Dr Ralph Moss was the Assistant Director of Public Affairs at probably America's most famous cancer research institution, Memorial Sloan Kettering in Manhattan. He states: "In the end, there is no proof that chemotherapy in the vast majority of cases actually extends life, and this is the GREAT LIE about chemotherapy, that somehow there is a correlation between shrinking a tumor and extending the life of a patient."

Walter Last, writing in The Ecologist, reports: "After analysing cancer survival statistics for several decades, Dr Hardin Jones, Professor at the University of California, concluded in 1975 that "...patients are as well, or better off untreated." Jones' disturbing assessment has never been refuted. What's more, three studies by other researchers have upheld his theory."

Professor Charles Mathe, French cancer specialist, makes this astonishing declaration: "If I contracted cancer, I would never go to a standard cancer treatment centre. Cancer victims who live far from such centres have a chance."

From another angle, Dr John Gofman's mammoth research attacks 'preventative' measures, such as routine mammograms, for causing the very illness they are designed to prevent:

"Breast cancer is a largely PREVENTABLE disease, and we reach that good news because of our finding that a large share of recent and current breast cancer in the United States is CERTAINLY due to past medical irradiation of the breasts with x-rays - at all ages, including infancy and childhood. Much of today's radiation dosage is preventable, without any interference with necessary diagnostic radiology, and hence many future breast cancers need not occur."

Epstein concurs with the risks mammograms and x-rays in general pose for the unknowing patient:

"X-rays are carcinogenic. The more X-rays you submit to and the greater the dose, the greater is your risk of cancer… Whatever you may be told, refuse routine mammograms to detect early breast cancer, especially if you are pre-menopausal. The X-rays may actually increase your chances of getting cancer…. Very few circumstances, if any, should persuade you to have X-rays taken if you are pregnant. The future risks of leukaemia to your unborn child, not to mention birth defects, are just not worth it."

Breast cancer patients are certainly at risk of developing lung cancer after radiation. In one study of 31 patients who had received radiotherapy for breast cancer, 19 went on to develop a lung cancer, on average, seventeen years later, mostly in the lung located on the same side as the breast that had been irradiated. Some oncologists believe that the lung is especially sensitive to radiation damage, either scar tissue or inflammation - which would tend to argue against high-dose radiotherapy for lung cancer. For Hodgkin's Disease, radiotherapy also poses a risk of breast cancer years later. In rectal cancer, animal studies have demonstrated the descending colon may be especially susceptible to cancer caused by radiation, particularly after surgery, where blood vessels are joined up. The current trend for health departments to promote routine and regular mammograms for early detection of breast cancers is also dangerous nonsense, given the evidence.

The patent failure of modern medicine to halt cancer is now becoming obvious, as the strategies Big Cancer uses to cover up a disaster of its own making are unmasked and exposed for the sham they have become. For instance, in August 1998, the huge MD Anderson Comprehensive Cancer Center in Houston was sued for making the unsubstantiated claim that it cures "well over 50% of people with cancer." Leaflets were deposited in mailboxes throughout the Houston area by MD Anderson in an effort to solicit funds to continue their 'war against cancer.' Misrepresentations and conflicts of interests abound within the cancer industry. For example, the wretched performance of the world's largest 'non-profit' institution, the American Cancer Society (ACS), is examined in the appendix section entitled Conflicts of Interest.

Environmental causations are repeatedly downplayed by Big Cancer, which invariably follows a 'blame the patient' course in explaining the rising causes of cancer. It also partially explains the rise in cancer incidence by alleging that earlier and more accurate detection has inflated the numbers of cancer incidence that were in fact already existing. Another strategy is to state that more people are contracting cancer because they are living longer and therefore stand a statistically higher risk of contracting the disease. Both these allegations are completely false. If age were a factor in cancer, then certainly the Hunzas and other long-lived cultures would be riddled with the disease. Clearly they are not. These strategies serve only to highlight clearly Cancer Inc's extreme reluctance to finger its cousins, Big Industry and Big Food, as the leading cancer felons worldwide today.

Cancer Inc. spares no effort in vilifying and pillorying alternative and non-toxic treatments which have shown a clinical track record of efficacy. Proponents of these treatments have been consistently harassed and defamed, and in certain cases jailed for the stand they have taken on this issue. The unpatentable treatment for cancer we will examine in a moment is not popular with an establishment that has shown itself eminently determined to keep its drug gravy train firmly on the rails.

Extracted from B17 Metabolic Therapy by Phillip Day
© Copyright 2003

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

Cancer - The New Approach
by Phillip Day

In spite of the medical establishment's dictatorial attitude towards protecting their cancer income, huge inroads into conquering cancer were made at the turn of the 1900s by Professor John Beard of Edinburgh University. Beard was no exception in that he received harassment for what he subsequently found. But like many pioneers, he soldiered on nonetheless. John Beard can justifiably be praised for being the individual who broke the back of cancer's mystery and brought its demise forward by many decades.

Beard was an embryologist who was one of the first doctors to study embryonic stem cells, these enigmatic pre-embryonic cells that reside within our body. Beard had noticed that these cells had the ability to develop into the cell structure of any body part, and even into a new embryo, if given the right morphogenetic, hormonal stimulus.

He discovered that in pregnancy, the body uses the hormone estrogen to stimulate these stem cells into rapidly multiplying into a cell mass Beard called 'trophoblast', releasing quantities of human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG), the hormone later to be detected with a pregnancy test. Beard's thesis stated that these trophoblastic cells have a job to do in pregnancy, namely to etch away part of the uterus wall so that the embryo can attach itself and start to develop. Once this has been achieved, the trophoblastic cells are destroyed around the 56th day of pregnancy when the baby's pancreas comes online and emits its enzymes, which deconstruct the outer coating of the trophoblast, allowing the immune system to clear away the remainder of these cells. Beard had discovered that in the event that the baby's pancreas fails, both the mother and the child die of cancer. In fact, what they die from is an uncontrolled and unregulated proliferation of these trophoblast cells, which now have no pancreatic enzyme 'termination' agents to curtail them.

CANCER AS A ROGUE HEALING PROCESS
Beard found that these stem cells also exist in our body for healing. When we hurt ourselves, our bodies initiate an automatic healing process (survival response) - we know this, and have seen it happen a thousand times. But intriguingly, the healing process commences the same way as with pregnancy trophoblast, namely, the hormone estrogen stimulates our stem cells into producing a trophoblastic 'carpet' of cells which seals off the damaged area and repairs it with cells formed into the cell structure of the bodypart that is being fixed. This healing process is then terminated by pancreatic enzymes upon completion of the task. In the event that we have low levels of these vital pancreatic enzymes, there is no termination agent for the trophoblast in our body and the trophoblast therefore continues to multiply and proliferate unopposed. The result is an ever expanding mass of trophoblastic cells in our body at the site specific to the original area of damage. Today we call this cell mass a tumour.

Beard discovered that our bodies become depleted of these vital pancreatic enzymes when we eat a diet rich in animal proteins. Without this protection, we become prone to developing cancer if the healing processes that initiate in our bodies are not terminated upon completion of their task. Beard began treating cancer patients to great effect using pancreatic enzymes trypsin and chymotrypsin, as well as other vital nutrients, up until his death around the beginning of World War 1. His theory, as expounded in his papers, was that, by introducing pancreatic enzymes into a cancer patient's body, the enzymes would continue with their job of digesting the outer protein coating of the trophoblast cells, allowing the body to clear away any dangerous trophoblastic proliferation.

We must remember that after Beard's career, medicine began treating cancer patients with Marie Curie's radium and other desperate remedies, causing further trauma, and no doubt generating more trophoblast as a survival response to counter the hurt being done to the body. Beard's work was largely ignored until Ernst T Krebs Jr, a biochemist from Nevada, came across Beard's thesis during his work with enzymes and nutrition.

Krebs was studying those cultures on Earth who did not suffer from cancer. He was aware that men like Albert Schweitzer and explorer Roald Amundsen were coming back from remote areas of the globe reporting that cancer just didn't exist among the populations they had encountered. To the Labrador Eskimos, the Thlinglets, the tribes of Gabon, the Vilcabambans of Ecuador, the Georgian tribes of southern Russia, the Karakorum and Hunzas of eastern Pakistan and the Hopi Indians of Arizona, cancer was unknown - and Krebs was keen to find out why.

He discovered that these peoples differed from westernised populations because they were doing one or all of the following which Krebs believed resulted in their pronounced and healthy longevity:

• They lived in environments devoid of man-made toxins.
  
• They ate diets rich in minerals and raw whole foods.
  
• They ate the dietary compound hydrocyanic acid, a staple of the nitriloside food group, which had been largely eliminated from the diets of Western populations.

Krebs' work on hydrocyanic acid was especially controversial, even as it still is today. The biochemist found that this compound was contained within the apricot seeds of the Hunzas - indeed within all the seeds of the common fruits, excluding citrus, as well as other foods that had largely been cut out of Western diets. The Hunzas were cracking open their apricot pits and consuming the soft seed within along with the pulp of the fruit. In addition, their womenfolk pressed the oil out of the kernels they collected and used it for cooking and cosmetics.

Krebs analysed hydrocyanic acid to discover its life-preserving qualities and reported that when this compound came into contact with trophoblast cells, it selectively killed them by manufacturing two poisons in minute quantities - hydrogen cyanide and benzaldehyde. Krebs also discovered that this reaction did not occur with healthy cells, thus preserving and even nourishing healthy tissue. Research demonstrated that the hydrocyanic acid compound could only be 'unlocked' by beta-glucosidase, a cellular enzyme which, although present throughout the body in minute quantities, was located in huge amounts at the site of trophoblast tumours. The beta-glucosidase contained in the trophoblast cells appeared to 'unlock' the hydrocyanic acid contained in the food to produce hydrogen cyanide and benzaldehyde at the cancer site. The two poisons combined synergistically to produce a super-poison many times more deadly than either substance in isolation. Thus the cancer cell met its chemical death at the hands of this unique compound's selective toxicity.

Krebs ran toxicity studies to determine whether hydrocyanic acid, or Laetrile/amygdalin/Vitamin B17, as the active principal would later become known, was dangerous to the organism if ingested in abnormal quantities. He reported that Vitamin B17 was harmless and chemically inert until stimulated by the beta-glucosidase available within cancer cells.

Later other researchers would replicate Krebs' work to confirm these findings. Sheep fed the equivalent of 8-10mg of HCN (hydrogen cyanide) per kilogram per day as linseed meal showed no toxic effects whatsoever. Sheep weighing 66kg were intravenously administered a three-hour dose of 2.7 gms of B17 yielding 300mg of HCN. New Zealand researchers Coop and Blakely reported that "...at no time during the experiment were even the slightest symptoms observed." A total of 568mg of HCN was given to a 76kg sheep in the course of an hour. The only symptom the animal showed was "a general sleepiness for an hour". Van der Walt failed to produce chronic poisoning in sheep even after administering 3.2mg HCN/kg daily for two years. Worden showed that repeated dosing in rabbits does not produce a cumulative effect and the animal was capable of eliminating excess B17 within two and a half hours.

Other researchers, such as Dr Harold Manner, head of biology at Loyola University, Chicago, ever mindful of the extreme flak Krebs began receiving following the publication of his findings, put further pieces of the cancer puzzle together. Manner began combining Beard's pancreatic enzymes, trypsin and chymotrypsin, with Vitamin A emulsion and B17-Laetrile, and used this protocol with a radical change of diet supplemented with minerals and antioxidants such as Vitamin C and selenium to supercharge the cancer patient to halt the progression of rogue trophoblast and even eliminate it altogether. This procedure was later to form the basis of the nutritional Metabolic Therapy we see practised in the most successful cancer clinics today.

The public and press began showing a marked interest in this controversial research, especially in view of the fact that this new approach to cancer treatment did not involve the use of toxic or radical treatments that were now increasingly becoming viewed as largely useless and 'ethically questionable':

When President Richard Nixon was deluged with tens of thousands of petitions from ordinary citizens everywhere demanding clinical trials for Laetrile, these demands were forwarded to his cancer advisor, Benno Schmidt... When Schmidt consulted all of his medical colleagues about Laetrile, he found them vehemently opposed to it. But, interestingly enough, as he told reporters later: "I couldn't get anybody to show me scientific proof that the stuff didn't work."

In 1973 a three-month trial at the Southern Research Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, intensively researched the therapeutic properties of Laetrile. The institute finally released its findings to the National Cancer Institute which proceeded to announce to the public that once again studies proved that B17-Laetrile had no effect whatsoever in the treatment of cancer. However not all was as it appeared. When the data and protocols from these experiments were subsequently studied in more detail by Dr Dean Burk, one of the National Cancer Institute's founders and head of its Department of Cytochemistry, inconsistencies in the trial protocols began to appear. Researcher G Edward Griffin, whose controversial book World Without Cancer broke the Laetrile story to the public in the 1970s, explains:

"Every [Laetrile] study had been tarnished with the same kind of scientific ineptitude, bias, and outright deception as found in the 1953 MacDonald/Garland California report. Some of these studies openly admitted evidence of anti-cancer effect but hastened to attribute this effect to other causes. Some were toxicity studies only, which means that they weren't trying to see if Laetrile was effective, but merely to determine how much of it was required to kill the patient."

Despite announcing to the world that Laetrile was useless, the National Cancer Institute, the American Medical Association and the drug cartels looked on with anger as a national grass-roots movement sprang up across America as a result of the many cancer recoveries being reported and attributed to Laetrile and supporting nutrition. It was the '70s and people were distrustful of their government as a result of Watergate and Vietnam. The Committee for Freedom-of-Choice in Cancer Therapy was formed, founding several hundred chapters across America which in turn held public meetings, press conferences and pressured state legislative committees into calling for the 'legalisation' of Vitamin B17.

The federal government eventually persuaded the cancer industry to test Laetrile, which they did - without the pancreatic enzymes and other supporting co-factors required to break down the cancer cell. Of course the trials failed and the results - or lack of them - were subsequently reported, the summary declaring that Laetrile has no anti-cancer benefit whatsoever. Meanwhile, other cancer industry-appointed scientists, such as Dr Kanematsu Sugiura, Dr Elizabeth Stockert and Dr Lloyd Schoen, were using the correct protocols at Memorial Sloan-Kettering and achieving startling results, as others would around the world in the years to come.

But even these results were mis-reported, and once again B17 was 'tossed under the bus' with Memorial Sloan-Kettering's incredible conclusion: "These results allow no definite conclusion supporting the anti-cancer activity of Laetrile."

This did not stop many physicians across America and later the world from implementing this therapy into their treatments of cancer patients. Many of these professionals received constant harassment at the hand of the medical authorities, who accused them of practising quackery and treating their patients with an 'unappoved drug' which contained the dangerous 'cyanide'. Gradually, through persistent and at times downright paranoid propaganda, the little yellow apricot became a natural-born killer in the eyes of many. Interestingly, the establishment proved dismal in the consistency of its opposition, focusing on "cyanide - what are you crazy?!" but failing to pillory Vitamin B12 as a 'deadly agent', containing as it does the cyanide radical also (Vitamin B12 is known as cyanocobalamin).

Philip Binzel MD, a doctor who retrained to treat his cancer patients with this nutritional therapy, foregoing the dangers of toxic chemotherapy and radiation treatments, highlights in his book Alive and Well the problem many doctors were having with an inherent lack of knowledge on nutrition:

"Most of my first patients were those who had all of the surgery, radiation and chemotherapy they could tolerate and their tumors were still growing. I did for these patients the best I knew to do. My biggest problem at the time was understanding nutrition. In four years of medical school, one year of Family Practice residency, I had not had even one lecture on nutrition." [emphasis mine]

Binzel's book catalogues the repeated harassment he received at the hands of the Ohio State Medical Board and the Food & Drug Administration over his use of Laetrile and nutritional co-factors for his cancer patients. Binzel's incredible story of amazing tumour regressions and eliminations amid the backdrop of draconian treatment at the hands of his peers is typical of the rollercoaster ride many courageous doctors underwent in order to bring the truth of wellness to their suffering patients.

Even the Food & Drug Administration had its defectors. June de Spain, one of its pharmacologists and toxicologists, wrote The Little Cyanide Cookbook, in which she dispels the 'deadly-cyanide-in-its-natural-form' myth and lays out hundreds of diets containing the essential nitriloside factor. De Spain sums up her own findings on the back cover of her book:

"Because of its unique molecular structure, this compound releases cyanide only at the cancer site, thus destroying cancer cells while nourishing non-cancer tissue. Those populations in the world which eat these vitamin-rich foods simply do not get cancer - and they live to be much older than those who subsist on the typical modern diet.

Cyanide in minute quantities and in the proper food forms, instead of being poisonous, actually is an essential component of normal body chemistry. Vitamin B12, for instance, contains cyanide in the form of cyanocobalamin."

Other doctors around the world were doing their own research, such as Dr Hans Nieper, former Director of the Department of Medicine at Silbersee Hospital in Hanover, Germany: During a visit to the United States in 1972, Dr Nieper told reporters: "After more than twenty years of such specialised work, I have found non-toxic nitrilosides - that is, Laetrile - far superior to any other known cancer treatment or preventative. In my opinion, it is the only existing possibility for the ultimate control of cancer."

In Canada, Dr N R Bouziane, former Director of Research Laboratories at St Jeanne D'Arc Hospital in Montreal, published his repeated successes in treating cancers with nutrition, which were written up in the medical literature, including the Cancer News Journal, Jan/April 1971, p.20, under the article heading "The Laetrile Story".

In the Philippines, Dr Manuel Navarro, former Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, and an internationally recognised cancer researcher with over 100 major scientific papers to his credit, treated terminally ill cancer patients with Laetrile for over 25 years. He stated in the Cancer News Journal: "It is my carefully considered clinical judgement, as a practising oncologist and researcher in this field, that I have obtained most significant and encouraging results with the use of Laetrile-amygdalin in the treatment of terminal cancer patients..."

In Mexico, Dr Ernesto Contreras, one of the country's leading medical specialists in nutritional treatment for cancer for over 30 years, remarks of B17-Laetrile's action with extreme terminal cancer cases: "The palliative action [the ability of a substance to improve the comfort of a patient] is in about 60% of the cases. Frequently, enough to be significant, I see arrest of the disease or even regression in some 15% of the very advanced cases."

Ernesto's son Francisco Contreras continues the work today after his father's retirement. Francisco is author of The Hope of Living Cancer Free in which he lays out the protocols his clinic has used to marvellous success in treating thousands of patients since 1963.

In Italy, Professor Etore Guidetti, of the University of Turin Medical School, announced startling results with Laetrile in successfully combating many types of cancer, including cervix, breast, uterus and rectum. After a speech, an American doctor rose in the audience, challenging the Italian professor that Laetrile had been found to be worthless in the United States. Dr Guidetti was abrupt and dismissive: "I care not what was determined in the United States. I am merely reporting what I saw in my own clinic."
Extracted from B17 Metabolic Therapy by Phillip Day
© Copyright 2003

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

Fluoride - Victory in Kansas!
March 7, 2004

Dear All,

I have been away for the weekend and came back a short while ago to find some wonderful news from Kansas. Through the stubborn efforts of many key friends in Kansas, Senate Bill SB 530, intended to legislate mandatory fluoridation in Kansas, will not make it out of committee. Congratulations Melody, Albert, Bob, Joe, Jean, Deanna, Wayne, June and Phil and everyone else who made this possible!

When Melody et al. have had a chance to drain the champagne and unwind, I am sure they will want to share with us some of the material which proved so successful in this whirlwind campaign. At the request of the Senators on the committee they drew up 1) lists of the many communities which have rejected (or stopped) fluoridation over the last few years; 2) numerous stories (with references) of cities and states in the US which have been fluoridated for years but are still experiencing high levels of tooth decay; 3) information on Xylitol mints, gum and toothpaste and 4) documentation that the chemicals used to fluoridate most communities in the US a) are obtained from the scrubbers of the phosphate fertilizer industry, b) contain many contaminants and c) have never been toxicologically tested by US agencies. Much of this information is already on the FAN site, www.fluoridealert.org, but it is nice to have it readily available in an email form.

A very special thank you to the many people on our mailing list who wrote to the Senators on this bill. This kind of support makes a huge difference to those in the thick of things. They go into their meetings knowing that they are not alone, even when they look as if they are outnumbered.

Thanks for all you do.

Paul Connett.
www.fluoridealert.org

Further Resources:
Health Wars by Phillip Day

Even Nature's Most Perfect Food
Deficient in This Crucial Vitamin

Dr. Bruce Hollis, of the Medical University of South Carolina, discovered why so many black infants and their breastfeeding mothers are deficient in vitamin D.

In 2002 when the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced their disturbing finding that 10 times more Blacks were vitamin D deficient than Whites, few of the press took notice and the story was largely ignored.

Researchers have also long known that many neonates are deficient in vitamin D. For example, a 1997 French study showed that, several days after birth, 63.7 percent of the infants had low vitamin D levels. Using even stricter criteria, the researchers concluded 24 percent of the neonates were vitamin D deficient and those infants needed 1,000 IU of vitamin D per day to correct the problem.

Scientists have long known the rather surprising fact that nature's "perfect food," human breast milk, is a poor source of vitamin D. To our knowledge, the U.S. government has not sponsored any recent studies of the incidence of vitamin D deficiency in black American maternal pairs (a population that generally gets little sun). However, a study of a similar sun-avoiding population of breast-feeding infants and mothers in the United Arab Emirates found 61 percent of the mothers and 82 percent of the infants had hypovitaminosis D.

How could nature's "perfect food," breast milk, be deficient in vitamin D? Scientists have long known that human breast milk, unlike the breast milk of wild apes and chimps, is almost totally lacking in vitamin D. Was it an oversight of Nature? Perhaps humans were meant to expose their infants to the sun (and thus to predators) to synthesize vitamin D in the skin?

How could vitamin D be almost completely lacking in human breast milk? A recent review in Neuroscience shows that vitamin D is crucial to brain development, and that gestational vitamin D deficiency is likely to lead to altered brain development:

Furthermore, the bone calcium and mineral content (bone mineral density) of lactating human mothers decline dramatically during breast-feeding, a serious side effect that may leave the breast-feeding mothers at risk for osteomalacia immediately and osteoporosis in later life. Was this Nature's plan as well? For those of us who believe in Nature's wisdom, such explanations are hard to accept.

However, thanks to Dr. Bruce Hollis and Dr. Carol Wagner, we now know the answer. It was not Nature's mistake; it was, and is, the government's mistake. At the recent NIH conference on vitamin D, Dr. Hollis announced the soon-to-be published findings from his Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Laboratory at the Department of Pediatrics of the Medical University of South Carolina. Working with his colleague and co-author, Dr. Carol Wagner, Dr. Hollis essentially found that the reason most human breast milk is deficient in vitamin D is that most mothers are deficient in vitamin D!

Hollis and Wagner announced their lab has determined that lactating mothers need at least 3,600 IU a day of cholecalciferol (the natural form of vitamin D) to maintain their own and their infant's vitamin D levels. 2,000 IU was inadequate. Only when Hollis and Wagner gave lactating mothers 3,600 IU of cholecalciferol did the mother have enough vitamin D to maintain their own and their infant's blood levels. 3,600 IU of vitamin D is about 10 times what the federal government says lactating women should get and is almost twice what the federal government says may be toxic.

Hollis and Wagner's finding that lactating mothers need at least 3,600 IU of cholecalciferol a day to maintain adequate maternal and infant levels is almost identical to the very recent findings by Professor Robert Heaney and his colleagues. Heaney, of Creighton University Medical Center, who is a world-renowned expert on calcium and vitamin D, found normal adults need 10 times more vitamin D a day than the government recommends.

Almost as an aside, Hollis and Wagner announced that supplementation with 3,600 IU a day dramatically reduced the decline in the mother's bone mineral density, a decline thought by the medical establishment, before now, to be an unfortunate, but inevitable, result of breast-feeding.

Although we know of no vitamin D scientist in the nation who believes the government's current guidelines, the guidelines remain and the result is widespread vitamin D deficiencies in the American populace, especially among Blacks and very especially among black neonates. Furthermore, the government knows that vitamin D is crucial for neural development. Nevertheless, the government refuses to act. Why?

As I get older, I realize I have often suspected conspiracy. In the end, it was usually incompetence. I imagine, but cannot prove, the same is true now.
Press release from John Jacob Cannell, MD,
Executive director of The Vitamin D Council

DR. MERCOLA'S COMMENT: Pregnant women have an added reason to get their vitamin D levels checked. As the study shows, if a breastfeeding woman is deficient in vitamin D, then her breast milk and breastfeeding baby will be too.

The majority of breastfeeding babies do require supplemental vitamin D, as many women in this country are deficient. This certainly includes most children in the winter, late fall and early spring, especially if they have deeply pigmented skin, as that serves as a filter for the beneficial UV rays from the sun that cause the body to produce vitamin D.

The best way for babies to obtain vitamin D, other than from the sun, is through cod liver oil, which was the original way rickets was prevented in the United States. Not only will cod liver oil provide vitamin D, but also the extremely important omega-3 fats.

However, please be aware that in the United States most babies can receive adequate sunshine on their skin come springtime. Remember, sun exposure is a far superior way to receive vitamin D than cod liver oil.

However, you can still give fish oil, which does not contain vitamin D, to your child to give him or her numerous health benefits. The dose of fish oil or cod liver oil is 1 ml for every 10 pounds of body weight (1 teaspoon equals 5 ml).
www.mercola.com

Cereal Toxins Fears
by Sean Poulter

More than half of oat products contaminated

More than half of breakfast cereals and muesli bars made with oats are contaminated with traces of toxins, scientists have found. Their study of 335 brand-name products such as Kellogg's, Nestlé's and Quaker detected traces of [fungal] mycotoxins.

In large quantities, such substances can lead to sickness, diarrhoea and in extreme cases, death. Researchers from the Food Standards Agency found three different types of mycotoxins in 174 samples. The Agency says the levels recorded are minimal and not considered a health risk for adults who follow a varied, balanced diet. However, in 21 products the toxic levels exceeded proposed EU safety limits designed to protect infants and children age three and under.

The findings have alarmed food campaigners, who say many parents feed their babies oat-based cereals from an early age. Kath Dalmeny, spokesman for The Food Commission, said: "Many of these foods are popular with children. It is not enough to fob people off with the idea it is perfectly safe and we should not worry. Manufacturers can and should do more to reduce the levels seen in foods."

Mycotoxins are linked to fungus which grows naturally on plants. They are from a group called trichothecenes, which can cause sickness and even death in large quantities, according to the FSA. It says consuming lower levels over many years has been reported to harm the immune system and damage an unborn baby.

But it says the levels found in its study of products - which include Kellogg's Honey Loops, Nestlé's Cheerios, Quaker Harvest Crunch-Oat Clusters with real red berries and Boot's Organic Creamy Porridge - would not cause concern in terms of normal weekly diet. It added: "The survey does not raise any safety concerns about oat products on sale to the public and so consumers do not need to change their diets as a result."

The Food and Drink Federation claimed the Agency had given its members a clean bill of health. But a spokesman admitted mycotoxin contamination was a problem the industry was trying to eradicate.

A spokesman for Boots said: "We are not taking this lightly. That said, we are absolutely happy this product is safe." Cereal Partners UK, which makes Cheerios, said it would review the findings "as a matter of urgency." Kellogg's said the survey "did not raise any significant concerns".
Daily Mail, 11th February 2004

PHILLIP DAY'S COMMENT: The extent to which processed foods, such as breakfast cereals, breads, pasta, etc., are contaminated with fungal mycotoxins, has been a food industry secret for years. The highly potent carcinogen aflatoxin, produced from Aspergillus moulds on grains, is the only mycotoxin most Government food departments are required to track and limit. Yet the majority of fungal damage to humans has gone unnoticed since fungal diseases are not reportable in the way infectious diseases are.

More and more information is now coming out on the extent to which fungi and yeast are problematic and implicated in both serious and minor illnesses. From toe-nail fungus to cancer, critters have a lot of explaining to do, and we, the public, need to insist our medical practitioners are adequately trained in mycology, which they are not.

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

Colloidal Silver - The Universal Germicide

Historical Background and Research
Silver has long been known for its special properties. The people of ancient Greece and Rome used silver containers for keeping liquids fresh. Through the centuries royal households carried on this practise by storing their provisions in silver containers. Privileged family members used silver eating utensils: they had their meals served on silver plates and their drinks served in sliver cups. Indeed, the skin of 'blue bloods' reportedly had a bluish tinge due to the minute traces of pure metallic silver they regularly consumed. In American pioneering days, new settlers travelling to the West would put silver dollars in their milk to delay spoiling.

By the turn of the 20th Century, silver was regarded as a proven germ-fighter. In medicine, a solution known as colloidal silver was commonly used as a mainstay of bacterial treatment. Although considered to be 'high tech' at that time, the type of solution used was technically inferior to today's colloidal silver solutions. One of the drawbacks was that the particle size of the silver never reached its optimum ultramicroscopic size and thus its highest levels of absorption.

Back then, highly effective colloidal silver was very expensive to produce. The pharmaceutical industry wanted faster-working drugs that were cheaper and patentable. In addition, when manufactured improperly or taken at hundreds of times the proper dosage with extraneous silver compounds included, a permanent skin discolouration called argyria could result. For these reasons, colloidal silver fell out of favour. Even so, prestigious journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine and the Lancet (1914) published the results of scientific studies and examined the many successful uses of colloidal silver.

In 1910, Dr Henry Crooks a pioneer in colloidal chemistry wrote that:

"….certain metals, when in a colloidal state, have a highly germicidal action but are quite harmless to human beings… it may be applied in a much more concentrated form and with better results…. Bronchial tuberculosis…Staphylococcus pyogenes, various Streptococci and other pathogenic organisms are all killed in three to four minutes: in fact no microbe is known that is not killed by this colloid in laboratory experiments in six minutes, [and] the concentration of the [silver] does not exceed twenty-five parts per million…."

In 1919, Alfred Scarle, founder of the pharmaceutical conglomerate of the same name, wrote in his book The Use of Colloids in Health and Disease that:

"…applying colloidal silver to human subjects has been done in a large number of cases with astonishingly successful results. For internal administration, orally or hypodermically it has the advantage of being rapidly fatal to parasites without toxic action on its host. It is quite stable."

Colloidal Silver Reappraised
Much later in the 1970's colloidal silver once again became a valued substance. Doctors at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, stumbled upon it while searching for effective treatments for burns victims, having tried many other medicines.

Biomedical research has shown that no known disease causing organism-bacteria, virus or fungus can live for more than a few minutes in the presence of even minute traces of metallic silver.

Jim Powell reported in an article, 'Our Mightiest Germ fighter' published in Science Digest (March 1078, pp. 59-60):

"Thanks to eye-opening research silver is emerging as a wonder of modern medicine. An antibiotic kills perhaps a half-dozen different disease organisms, but silver kills some 650. What's more, resistant strains fail to develop when using silver. Moreover, silver is virtually non-toxic."

Larry C Ford. M.D., of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the UCLA School of Medicines Centre for the Health Sciences reported in a November 1988 letter:

"I tested them [the silver solutions] using standard antimicrobial tests for disinfectants. The silver solutions were anti-bacterial for concentrations of 10 organisms per ml of Streptococcus pyogenes, Staphylococcus aureus, Neisseria gonorrhoea, Gardnerela, Vaginalis, Salmonella typhi and other enteric pathogens and fungicidal for Candida albicans, Candida globate and m. furfur."

Biomedical researcher Robert O Becker. M.D. from Syracuse University has reported that "Silver stimulates bone-forming cells into growing new bone where it had not healed for long periods of time." Dr Becker is the author of The Body Electric and Cross Currents and is also known for his work in regenerating the amputated legs of bullfrogs.

According to Dr Becker, "Silver did more than kill disease-causing organisms, it promoted major growth of bone and accelerated the healing of injured tissues by over 50 per cent". In his research he discovered cell types that looked just like the active bone marrow of children. "These cells grew fast," he wrote, "producing a diverse and surprising assortment of primitive cell forms able to multiply at a great rate, then differentiate into the specific cells of an organ tissue that had been injured, even in patients over fifty years old. This ability overcomes the main problem of mammalian regeneration".

Dr Becker also discovered that silver profoundly stimulates healing in skin and other soft tissues in a way unlike any known natural process… kills the most stubborn infections of all kinds, including surrounding bacteria and fungus. He concluded that "What we have actually done is to rediscover the fact that silver kills bacteria, which had been known for centuries… when antibiotics were discovered, clinical uses for silver as an antibiotic were discarded."

Colloidal Chemistry
The term 'colloid' refers to a substance that consists off ultra-fine particles that do not dissolve but remain in suspension dispersed in a continuous medium. These ultra-fine particles consist of many atoms or molecules of the original material, but so small they cannot be seen by the naked eye.

Not all types of colloidal silver are true colloids. Properly manufactured colloidal silver is a liquid solution consisting of a minuscule number (3 to 5 parts per million) of submicroscopic particles of silver, held in suspension in pure water by a tiny electrical charge placed on each particle.

In a 'true' colloid of silver, the ideal size of the silver particles falls within the range of 0.005 to 0.015 microns in diameter. The particles are animated by what is known as Brownian movement, which keeps then in suspension almost indefinitely. You could fit 1,000,000,000 of these submicroscopic particles into a cube that measures four one-hundredths of an inch or 250 thousandths to 25 millionths of an inch.

Production Methods
Many methods were used to produce colloids in the early 1900s- most commonly, the grind process and the electrocolloidal process.

The main drawback to the grind method is that the silver particles are so large that they settle towards the bottom of the solution and much of the colloid's value is lost. To offset this problem, some manufacturers add a stabiliser. By so doing, the silver particles tend to settle to the bottom much more slowly. Typically, the stabiliser used is a protein. The use of a stabiliser tends to disturb the charge on the silver particles, thereby blocking their action and reducing their effectiveness. A 'true' colloid does not require an artificial stabiliser or additive of any kind.

In recent years, the chemical process has been widely employed to replace the grind method. The chemical method provides a convenient shortcut, but it, too, falls short of the superior quality of 'true' colloidal silver. The reaction used is the reduction of a solution of a silver salt. The problem with using chemicals to produce colloids is the difficulty in getting them back out of the solution. These are powerful acid solutions which can cause negative side effects in the consumer. Also, the use of chemicals has been shown to affect the overall pH of the solution. Typically, a chemical-produced colloid of silver is quite acidic, having a pH of 4.5 to 5.5, while a 'true' colloid of silver has a pH in the range of 6.5.

The electrocolloidal process allows extremely fine silver particles to be suspended in solution by the tiny charge placed on the particles. It is done by striking an electric arc between poles made of the metal under water. If done properly, this method replaces the need for any chemicals, stabilisers or proteins, so the product can be called a 'true' colloid of silver. However, much of the efficacy of the colloidal solution depends on the actual size and uniformity of silver particles. Particles that are too large may cause harm by lodging in the fine lining of the digestive tract and causing scar tissue to form.

Colour
A critical indicator of the quality of colloidal silver is colour. As the size of each silver particle gets larger, the colour of the solution ranges from yellow to brown to red to grey to black.

Colloids of silver that are produced using the proper electrocolliodal method are a different colour than the grind-or chemically produced colloids, except in the case of some products that contain artificial food colouring to get the right colour. The ideal form of colloidal silver is a golden yellow colour.

Biochemistry
Medical researcher Dr Gary Smith suggests that silver may be linked to the proper functioning of the body's natural defence system and that people with an inadequate intake may be more prone to illness.

Medical tests indicate no known adverse effects from the use of properly prepared colloidal silver. Indeed, there has never been a recorded case of adverse interaction with any other medication. Some lab tests have shown that 'true' colloidal silver in the range of 3 to 5 ppm (parts per million) has little effect on 'friendly' bacteria, while being highly useful against infections and in eliminating various microbes viruses and fungi. Colloidal silver that is too concentrated (above 5ppm) may upset the delicate balance of the digestive tract by destroying significant amounts of friendly bacteria.

With a 98 per cent uptake rate, colloidal minerals are much more easily assimilated compared to mineral supplements derived from crushed and processed clay rocks and soil. And unlike many vitamin and mineral supplements where a higher concentration is sometimes more beneficial, with colloidal silver and excess in quantity does not mean more quality. In fact the opposite is true.

FDA evaluation
A number of forms of colloidal silver have been officially recognised as pre-1938 drugs by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). However, not all forms listed were true colloids of silver because the size of the particles and the effectiveness varied markedly.

The FDA's Centre for Drug Evaluation and Research has stated:

"Colloidal silver is considered to be a pre-1938 drug. These products may continue to be marketed without submitted evidence of safety and effectiveness [required of all drugs marketed after 1938] as long as they are advertised and labelled for the same use as in 1938 and as long as they are manufactured in the original manner."

Colloidal Silver Treatment
Colloidal silver is tasteless, odourless and non-stinging to sensitive tissues. It may be taken orally as well as put on a band-aid and applied directly to cuts, scrapes, sores and warts.

It may also be used as a rinse for acne, eczema and other skin irritations. It can be gargled, dropped into eyes and ears, used vaginally and anally as well as atomised and inhaled into the nose or lungs.

The following is a partial list of the more than 650 diseases that have been successfully treated with colloidal silver:

• Acne Anthrax Appendicitis Arthritis Athlete's foot
  
• Bacterial infections Bladder infections Blood poisoning Boils Burns
  
• Candida albicans Catarrh Chronic fatigue Syndrome Colitis Conjunctivitis Cryptosporidium infection Cystitis
  
• Dermatitis Diabetes Diarrhoea Diptheria Dysentery
  
• Ear infection Eczema Epstein Barr virus Eustachian tube infection Fibrositis
  
• Gastritis Gonorrhoea
  
• Haemorrhoids Herpes virus
  
• Impetigo Influenza Intestinal disorders
  
• Keratitis
  
• Legionnaire's disease Leprosy Lesions Lupus
  
• Malaria Meniere's disease Meningitis
  
• Neurasthenia
  
• Opthalmia
  
• Paratyphoid fever Pleurisy Pneumonia Polio virus Prostate disorders Pruritis and Psoriasis Pyorrhoea
  
• Rheumatism Rhinitis Ringworm Rosacea
  
• Salmonella infection Scarlet fever Seborrhoea Septicaemia Septic ulcers Shingles Skin cancer Sores Staphylococcus infection Streptococci infection Sunburn Syphilis
  
• Tetanus Tonsilitis Trenchfoot Tuberculosis Typhiod
  
• Ulcers
  
• Watrs Whooping cough
  
• Yeast infections

More Clinical Evidence
"A 65-year-old diabetic cut himself on the leg. He washed and bandaged it but as often happens with diabetes, the pain persisted and the cut grew into a sore. Soon it became bigger than the bandage and he had to apply a dressing. Still it grew bigger and ugly. In desperation he went to a clinic. His sore was diagnosed as a 'statis ulcer'. For a year one treatment after another was tried. Nothing, including penicillin and sulphonamide could heal the ulcer. If his condition had continued unchecked, his leg probably would have been amputated. But finally he was referred to a clinic that treated skin ulcers with a silver compound. This promptly stopped the growth of all bacteria. In less than two months, the ulcer was completely healed."
(Science Digest March 1978)

"We have had instant success with colloidal silver and immune-compromised patients. A few examples are: pink-eye totally resolved in less than 6 hours (topical): recurrent sinus infections resolved in eight days (oral ingestion): acute cuticle infections, twenty four hours (topical). Another major area in which we have improved our clinical results is in the area of the bowel detoxification and dysbiosis. The colloidal silver has provided excellent removal of abnormal intestinal bacteria: also it has proved to be a great adjunct to our Candida albicans, Epstein Barr Virus and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome protocols."
(Dr Evan M Kansas)

Who's using colloidal silver?

• In Canada, Switzerland and the US, physicians use various forms of silver to treat a multitude of infections.
  
• In the US, silver is used in bone surgery and in 70 per cent of US burns centres.
  
• Naturopaths and chiropractors use colloidal silver to treat the effects of Cryptosporidium. Ayurvedic and Chinese practitioners regularly use silver in their treatments.
  
• Colloidal silver water filters are approved by the US Environmental Protection Agency and also by the Swiss government for use in homes and offices.
  
• The American space agency NASA uses a silver water purification system for its space shuttles, as do the Russians.
  
• The airline companies Air France, Alitalia, British Airways, Canadian Pacific, Japan Airlines, Pan Am SAS and Swissair use silver water filters to curtail waterborne diseases.
  
• Silver is often used in place of chlorine in swimming pools because it doesn't sting the eyes.
  
• Japanese companies are using silver to remove cyanide and nitric acid from the air.
  Nexus Magazine, Vol.4,No.1

PHILLIP DAY'S COMMENT: Colloidal silver is one of the bulwarks of natural anti-fungal/bacterial treatments and is simple to use along with other therapeutics. As many know, there are a whole host of diseases that are being stirred up by fungal and yeast pathogens, as well as oft-slated bacteria. We see colloidal silver used in natural cancer treatments especially where the cancers, such as leukaemia, melanoma, lymphoma and lymphosarcoma, are fungal-driven.

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

Diabetes
by Phillip Day

Profile

The world is in the grip of a diabetes epidemic. Estimates that as many as 1 in 10 Americans might have the condition have shocked many, and yet, apart from offering the connection between the disease and our body's impaired ability to process sugars, medical science still seems to be clawing around in the dark as to what is behind the plague. Well, I have some great news for you. But first, let's define what the problems are:

Type-1 - Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) - Occurs most often in infants and adolescents. This is the rarer (10% of all diabetics) but more dangerous form, where some, or all of the beta cells in the pancreas, which produce insulin, seem to have been destroyed by the immune system. The condition also appears to be accompanied by the inability of these valuable islet cells to regenerate.
Type-2 - Non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) - Known as adult-onset diabetes, as the condition usually appears in patients over forty years of age. Type-2 is one of the fastest growing diseases in the western world, and is usually what someone refers to when they say they are 'diabetic'. The condition occurs when the body's cells become resistant to the pancreatic hormone insulin, which regulates blood sugar levels, resulting in dramatically lowered sugar-absorption by the cells, and thus excess sugars remain in the blood, unable to be oxidised to produce energy.
Gestational Diabetes - During pregnancy, women experience increased estrogen and cortisol hormone secretions, which raise blood sugar levels. This in turn prompts the pancreas to generate more insulin to regulate this extra glucose. In 3-5% of women, the increased insulin appears to have marginal effect on how the cells of their body absorb sugars and the result is a form of type-2 (glucose intolerance) diabetes.

Symptoms
In type-1, insulin-producing beta cells do not die simultaneously, so early diagnosis of the condition is important in order to take appropriate action to save the remainder. Thirst, dramatic loss or gaining of weight and the excessive production of urine. Increased blood pressure, increased appetite, nausea, hyperglycaemia, or an over-accumulation of glucose in the blood (unregulated by insulin). Type-1 can lead to foot ulcers, blindness (diabetic eye disease, or retinopathy), nerve damage (diabetic neuropathy), heart disease, gangrene of limb(s) (peripheral vascular disease), requiring amputation, kidney failure and coma.

Commentary
Medicine states that the exact mechanism for how all the types of diabetes occur in the body is still theoretical, however a tremendous amount is already known about the different types of the disease in general. So let's start putting some pieces together:

Type-1: Mostly recognised as an 'auto-immune' disorder where the immune system has destroyed the beta cells which produce the glucose-regulating hormone, insulin. Question: what has triggered such a specific attack? The wisdom of the day states that the body's immune system has decided to attack the beta cells, believing the latter are invading microbes, such as bacteria or viruses. This does not explain 'why the beta cells' in particular?
With insulin production completely disrupted, the cells of the body cannot be fed the glucose they need to provide energy. An extreme tiredness sets in with the patient. Blood sugar levels go through the roof, since there is no insulin to regulate them. The kidneys get in on the act, vainly attempting to filter out the excess sugars, resulting in frequent bathroom trips and a raging thirsty requirement for water to flush out the sugary gunk. Kidney failure is a common result of type-1, for reasons we shall examine.

Type-2: The problems with type-2 diabetes begin with how our bodies process foods that break down into glucose. Refined sugar, or sucrose, hydrolyses into glucose and fructose after consumption. Fructose is metabolised directly to produce energy. Abrupt intakes of glucose into the bloodstream however provoke a massive secretion of insulin, responsible for regulating blood sugar levels and storing excess glucose as fat. The result of this over-production of insulin is a sudden drop in blood sugar, which, as I discuss in The Mind Game, often brings on mood changes and behavioural upsets.

Now we have low blood sugar, we can get that wobbly sensation and become growly and as mean as a snake. What are our bodies craving? Sugar! So, in go the doughnuts, Twinkies, Ding-Dongs, Mars bars and Bear Claws; up go the blood sugar levels again; out squirts all that insulin to regulate the glucose, and down come those blood sugar levels again with a thump. This spiky, chaotic pattern of blood sugar in the body will eventually cause our cells to become resistant to all that insulin, resulting in the condition of type-2 diabetes.

Sucrose and massive insulin secretions have long been known to be a leading causative factor in type-2 diabetes. The condition usually occurs in adults, who have had years of food abuse to render their cells insulin-resistant. Type-2 can be controlled and even eliminated with a combination of diet and exercise. People with the condition not only lose their sensitivity to insulin, which regulates the build-up of blood sugar, but this repeated overload of insulin and glucose can lead to an increase in systolic blood pressure, fainting and diabetic coma.

Excessive consumption of refined, high-glycaemic carbohydrates, including items like white bread, white flour, chocolate, sweets, pastries, white rice, breakfast cereals, as well as alcohol drinks, especially wine and beer, will all yield excessive sugars into the bloodstream with the predictable, aforementioned, excess insulin effects.

Another problem is physical and emotional stress. This triggers what is known as Fight or Flight Syndrome. When we become agitated, stressed or physically threatened, the body prepares for combat or flight by generating powerful shots of adrenalin. This provokes the releasing of stored glucose (glycogen) into the bloodstream for energy to fuel explosive physical action. This in turn causes a surge of insulin to regulate blood sugar levels. Notice how, in previous eras, the Fight/Flight response would resolve itself with explosive physical action (either Fight or Flight!), which in turn would burn off the sugars.

What about today? When we are stressed with money, relationships, hardships or work pressures, or simply getting our kicks watching the FA Cup or playing video games, this Fight/Flight response still occurs and may endure for days or weeks. Consequently, the amount of insulin produced by the pancreas in today's stressful, sugar-laden environment is substantially higher. This excess energy does not tend to discharge itself through physical action, since we are remarkably inactive today. The results of this insulin response can also be diabetes.

Dr Joseph Mercola clarifies type-2: "The overall concept of [prescribing] insulin for type-2 diabetes is absurd and makes absolutely no sense if one understands the way the body is designed to work. However, since nearly all traditional physicians don't comprehend basic human physiology with respect to diet and health, it is not surprising that they could come up with the prescription for disaster of giving someone who is already overloaded with insulin more of what caused the problem.

The main reason most adult-onset (type-2) diabetics have diabetes is that they have too much insulin. This is usually a result of having too many grains. The solution in nearly all of these individuals is to consume a no-grain diet and to exercise one hour per day."

The role critters play in type-1
There is some tremendously compelling research pointing the finger squarely at fungi as the cause of diabetes in general. Remember, simply eating sugar alone cannot cause diabetes, since millions eat sugar and don't have the condition. Being overweight alone cannot be the cause for diabetes, since millions in the world are overweight and do not suffer the condition. Contrariwise, there are lots of thinnies among us who have diabetes. There has to be another factor, and that's where fungi come in. Doug Kaufmann and David Holland MD remark:

"Why on earth would fungi launch such a specific mission as an attack on the beta cells to begin with? What do they stand to gain? The answer is: food! With the beta cells out of the way, insulin production drops to zero. Blood sugar skyrockets, creating the ultimate splurge opportunity for fungi.

That said, it's open to debate just how well type-1 diabetes works for the fungi that initiate it. If the fungus-infected beta cell is destroyed by the diabetic's immune system, then all of the parties immediately involved lose out. Although fungi that arrive after the beta cells are destroyed stand to benefit a great deal, it could be that their forerunners have run your basic suicide mission."

In examining the smoking gun at the ground zero of diabetes type-1 activity, we find dead beta cells, tantalising traces of recent immune activity, but no dead critters. This isn't the end of the story however, since scientists can easily overlook dead fungal matter, which will be removed by the bloodstream and disposed of through the kidneys anyway. If you hear a crash in the kitchen, storm in and find a broken milk bottle on the floor, with the cat in the corner covered in milk, do you automatically assume the cat is responsible? Did you see your little boy hiding behind the door?

That the immune system has destroyed the beta cells is quite well established. But why? What if the beta cells were infected with fungi which were attempting to sabotage the body's sugar-regulating mechanisms? Science has shown well that fungi have the disconcerting ability to manipulate their environment in order to secure their food sources. Let's look at some scientific evidence:

In 1973, Escher et al found that cured mutton is loaded with mycotoxins from fungi. Eight years later, Helgason and Jonasson reported a highly disproportionate number of Icelandic women who ate cured mutton immediately prior to pregnancy who gave birth to babies with diabetes type-1. The year before in 1980, Pojo showed how alloxan, a fungal toxin, directly damaged beta cells which produce insulin. Hayes caused diabetes in lab animals by injecting them with streptozotocin, another fungal toxin. Coleman found that a 10% brewer's yeast diet caused diabetes in his lab animals. Varsano discovered that cancer patients given the chemo Asparaginase consistently developed diabetes. L-asparaginase is a mycotoxin developed from the soil fungus Cylindrocarpon obtusisporum.

Aspergillus niger is a fungus often found contaminating peanuts and corn which is known to cause ear infections. The fungus also produces oxalic acid in large quantities, which is known to stop the conversion of sugars into energy.

Many fungus mycotoxins are used as antibiotics, even as Pencillin still is. Streptomyces achromogenes is a soil fungus which excretes streptozotocin, an antibiotic. Notice that the US Department of Health and Human Services lists this mycotoxin as a carcinogen, which can also cause kidney and pancreatic tumours in lab rats. Not such great medicine after all.

How exposed are we to fungi?
The world eats grains like they are going out of fashion. Much of this grain material is stored for some time, promoting the growth of mould, yeasts and fungi. Farmers entering corn silos are at some risk from Aspergillus ochraceus, for instance, a fungus whose mycotoxin, ochratoxin, is given off as a gas. Inhaling ochratoxin can have serious consequences. The kidneys attempt to detoxify this toxin can cause the nephron tissues within the kidneys to become infected, unleashing the hounds of the immune system. The result is often acute tubular necrosis (ATN), the precursor to kidney failure.

Gliotoxin, an airborne poison given off by Aspergillus, Candida, Gliocladium and Penicillin moulds, is also extremely toxic to cells and nerves in small concentrations, as we shall see when we study multiple sclerosis later. Fumonisin toxins are also implicated in corn products and can cause nerve damage. Patulin, a fungal mycotoxin, is also commonly found in apple juice.

As previously discussed, populations around the world are all indulging in the common behaviour of eating sugar-rich foods, as well as consuming foods which break down into glucose (remember too that alcohol is a mycotoxin! It is the product of yeast acting on sugars). The western diet has resulted in the many fungal complaints commonly seen (thrush, vaginal yeast infections, toe-nail fungus, rashes, jock itch, athlete's foot, etc.), but also the more serious infestations which will result in cancer, heart disease, diabetes, stroke, multiple sclerosis, and others we shall examine. While critters may not be at the root of every one of these problems, THEY ARE MAJOR PLAYERS AND CO-CONSPIRATORS. Science is only now determining just to what extent. Incredibly, doctors are not required to report diseases caused by fungi. Many of them don't even entertain them as a cause for many complaints, simply because they were not taught to do so. Food agencies, such as USDA and Britain's FSA, hardly test the food chain for these hidden contaminants.

Take action
Here's what you can do with your food and lifestyle:

• Consult a doctor who is familiar with, or has some grounding in mycotoxicology (critters and their poisons)
  
• START THE ANTI-CANDIDA DIETARY REGIMEN, cutting out grains completely
  
• AVOID ALL SUGAR AND YEAST
  
• RESTORE NUTRIENT BALANCE: COMMENCE THE BASIC SUPPLEMENT PROGRAM, ensuring:
  
• ANTI-CANDIDA/FUNGAL SUPPLEMENTATION
  
• Vanadium or chromium picolinate, 200 mcg a day, taken every other day, two weeks on, two weeks off. Note: do not continue this supplement over a protracted period of time
  
• 4 g Vitamin C complex (ascorbates plus bioflavonoids)
  
• Vitamin B3 (in the form of inositol hexaniacinate - the no-flush version of B3), 2-3 g per day
  
• Vitamin B6, 100 mg per day
  
• Increase garlic and onion in the diet
  
• EXERCISE AN HOUR A DAY IN A GYM. This is a vital component of the program and must be taken very seriously. Secure the services of a personal trainer who will devise a proper program for diabetics. Exercise improves glucose tolerance by increasing the sensitivity of cells to insulin. Exercise massively increases oxygen intake and renders your internal environment extremely hostile to parasites
  
• NOTE: At no time should diabetics discontinue any prescribed medication without sanction from their physician

© Copyright Phillip Day 2003
Extracted from The ABC's of Disease

Further Resources:
The ABC's of Disease by Phillip Day
Health Wars by Phillip Day

Glaxosmithkline Staff Told not to Publicise
Ineffectiveness of its Drug

CMAJ (the Journal of the Canadian Medical Association) has published details of an internal document from the drug company GlaxoSmithKline that advised its staff to withhold the findings of a clinical trial in 1998 showing that the antidepressant paroxetine had no benefit in treating adolescents.

The association has publicised the document on its website in an early release of its Analysis column (www.cmaj.ca).

Last year, the drug, which is marketed as Paxil in North America and Seroxat in the United Kingdom, was banned for paediatric use in several countries because of a perceived increased risk of suicide.

The UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency advised doctors last June that they should not prescribe the drug to patients under the age of 18.

The CMAJ column says the confidential document was prepared by the central medical affairs team, a division of SmithKline Beecham, the company that subsequently merged with GlaxoWellcome to form GlaxoSmithKline. The column says the document gives guidance on two clinical trials, study 329 and 377, whose results were, according to the document, "insufficiently robust" to support application to regulatory authorities for a label change approving Seroxat for use in children and adolescents.

The team recommended the firm "effectively manage the dissemination of these data in order to minimize any potential negative commercial impact."

Study 329, conducted in the United States from 1993 to 1996, showed paroxetine to be no more effective than a placebo, while study 377 showed that the placebo was "actually more effective than the anti-depressant."

The central medical affairs team's document is quoted as saying that "it would be commercially unacceptable to include a statement that efficacy had not been demonstrated, as this would undermine the profile of paroxetine."

A spokeswoman for GlaxoSmithKline, Jill McKinlay-Morris, told the CMAJ that "the memo draws an inappropriate conclusion and is not consistent with the facts... GSK abided by all regulatory requirements for submitting safety data. We also communicated safety and efficacy data to physicians through posters, abstracts, and other publications."
David Spurgeon (Quebec) BMJ 2004;328:422 (21 February)

McDonald's Salad Has More Fat Than Cheeseburger

Global hamburger giant McDonald's latest line in healthy looking salads may contain more fat than its hamburgers, according to the company's Web Site.

McDonald's, plagued by health critics and flattening sales, has launched the biggest change to its menu in 30 years with its plans to get into the multi-million pound prepared salad market.

"You can choose your salad, topping and dressing. You can mix and match to suit your diet and lifestyle," said a McDonald's spokeswoman.

However, consumers hoping to lose weight by switching from burgers to salads may be disappointed, according to the Interactive Nutrition Counter on the McDonald's Web site.

For example, on the new menu to be launched at the end of this month, a "Caesar salad with Chicken Premiere" contains 18.4 grams of fat compared with 11.5 grams of fat in a standard cheeseburger.

The British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) told Reuters it welcomed the salad menu but warned that salad dressings bought in fast-food outlets or supermarkets could be very high in fat and calories.

BNF said the recommended daily fat intake for men is 95 grams per day and for women 70 grams per day.

McDonald's has 1,235 restaurants in the UK and serves three million customers per day.
London (Reuters), 9th March 2004

A Life Sentence With No Appeal
by Michael Seamark

It's the final insult. While asylum seekers and prisoners denied second helpings of pudding are given legal aid, these agonised parents who believe MMR caused their children's autism are refused it.

The battle by 1,000 families to prove the MMR jab ruined their children's lives was in severe jeopardy last night following a decision to cut off their legal aid.

Their multi-million-pound claim against the makers of the vaccine faces collapse after the Legal Services Commission - which had spent £15million on the action - refused to approve a further £10million.

An appeal for a judicial review into that decision has been heard and the result is expected in the next two weeks. But without further public funding these cases are unlikely to go forward, devastating the families fighting to win justice for their sons and daughters.

They are bitter that, despite legal aid being handed out to a host of dubious causes, their fight is being dismissed.

Campaigner, Jackie Fletcher, is the national co-ordinator of the Jabs parent support organisation and her 12-year-old son, Robert, is one of those children involved. She said yesterday: "Without legal aid the families of the damaged children face losing their day in Court - which we hoped would give answers to all worried parents."

The decision, last October, to stop any further legal aid was condemned as 'illogical and perverse' by parents. It came only six months before the cases were due to be heard of the children, who suffer from a range of disabilities including autism, bowel problems, epilepsy and other learning difficulties.

The LSC said that it recognised that the children suffered from a series of serious medical conditions, and that the matter was of sufficient public interest to justify the money so far invested in the case.

But the failure of any medical body to prove a concrete link between the triple jab and these health problems meant the case had little chance of success, it said.
Daily Mail, 24th February 2004

The Questions
by Jeremy Laurence

Is Andrew Wakefield being attacked because of his findings or because of a potential conflict of interest?

Is there evidence of an orchestrated government campaign against him?

Why have other research papers been accepted for publication in The Lancet when a potential conflict of interest exists without there being such controversy?

Why, given his tough comment on 23rd February, has Mr Blair never said whether his son, Leo, has had the MMR, when that might have offered much needed reassurance to parents and so boost the take-up rates?

Why has the government never ordered a clinical examination of children who developed bowel disease and autism following MMR vaccination?

Its supporters agree it is impossible to prove that the MMR is safe. What more, then, can be done to reassure worried parents?
The Independent, 24th February 2004

PHILLIP DAY'S COMMENT: Tell them not to take it and use natural, wholesome ways of boosting immunity instead. And, God forbid, if your child does get measles, so what? Is it really the end of the world?

Further Resources:
For a total treatment of 'infectious' diseases and the vaccination conundrum, please see: Wake up to Health in the 21st Century by Steven Ransom

Soy: Healthy or Harmful?

In recent years soy has emerged as a 'near perfect' food, with supporters claiming it can provide an ideal source of protein, lower cholesterol, protect against cancer and heart disease, reduce menopause symptoms, and prevent osteoporosis, among other things. But how did such a 'perfect' food emerge from a product that in 1913 was listed in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) handbook not as a food but as an industrial product?

According to lipid specialist and nutritionist Mary Enig, PhD, "The reason there's so much soy in America is because they [the soy industry] started to plant soy to extract the oil from it and soy oil became a very large industry. Once they had as much oil as they did in the food supply they had a lot of soy protein residue left over, and since they can't feed it to animals, except in small amounts, they had to find another market."

And another market was what they found. To put it simply, after multi-million dollar figures spent on advertising and intense lobbying to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), about 74 percent of U.S. consumers now believe soy products are healthy.

If you're thinking the health claims surrounding soy sound too good to be true you just may be right. Soy has become another misunderstood food category, to be added to the ranks of coconut oil, saturated fats and vegetable oils. The two former have gained a negative reputation where a good one actually applies, but vegetable oil, along with soy, have emerged with sparkling reputations that cover up the truth.

For just a brief look at what's really going on, consider that numerous studies have found that soy products may:

• Increase the risk of breast cancer in women, brain damage in both men and women, and abnormalities in infants
  
• Contribute to thyroid disorders, especially in women
  
• Promote kidney stones
  
• Weaken the immune system
  
• Cause severe, potentially fatal food allergies
  
• Soy products also contain:
  
• Phytoestrogens (isoflavones) genistein and daidzein, which mimic and sometimes block the hormone estrogen
  
• Phytates, which block the body's uptake of minerals
  
• Enzyme Inhibitors, which hinder protein digestion
  
• Haemaglutin, which causes red blood cells to clump together and inhibits oxygen take-up and growth

Further, most soybeans are grown on farms that use toxic pesticides and herbicides, and many are from genetically engineered plants. When you consider that two-thirds of all manufactured food products contain some form of soy, it becomes clear just how many Americans are consuming GM products, whose long-term effects are completely unknown.

Perhaps the most disturbing of soy's ill-effects on health has to do with its phytoestrogens that can mimic the effects of the female hormone estrogen. These phytoestrogens have been found to have adverse effects on various human tissues, and drinking even two glasses of soy milk daily for one month has enough of the chemical to alter a woman's menstrual cycle. The FDA regulates estrogen-containing products, however no warnings exist on soy. Two senior toxicologists with the FDA. Daniel Sheehan and Daniel Doerge, have even come out saying "The public will be put at potential risk from soy isoflavones in soy protein isolate without adequate warning and information." Soy is particularly problematic for infants, and soy infant formulas should be avoided. It has been estimated that infants who are fed soy formula exclusively receive five birth control pills worth of estrogen every day.

There are some redeeming qualities to soy, however these are found primarily in fermented soy products like tempeh, miso and natto and soybean sprouts. If you want to get some health benefits from soy, stick to these four forms and pass up the processed soy milks, soy 'burgers', soy 'ice cream', soy 'cheese', and the myriad of other soy junk foods that are so readily disguised as health foods.
By Dr. Joseph Mercola with Rachael Droege
www.mercola.com

Soya Products Test Positive For GMOs

GM contamination has been discovered in non-organic soya products.

A study by Professor Murphy and colleagues from the University of Glamorgan in Wales, tested 25 soya products from various retailers in South Wales and Yorkshire for the presence of GM varieties. Ten of the products (40 per cent) tested positive for GM ingredients, including eight which were labelled as GM-free or organic.

Robert Vint of Genetic Food Alert says the study raises a number of questions. "While this may well be part of a campaign by the biotech industry to oppose EU label laws and attack organic standards, it does highlight the need for manufacturers to take more care to keep products GM - free," says Vint.

One of the products tested and found to be contaminated - organic soya flour bought in Hebden Bridge - was certified by the Soil Association (SA). The level detected was just above the detection limit of 0. 1 per cent.

"The public doesn't want GM food, and the food industry continues to struggle to keep GMOs out of products," says Peter Melchett, the SA's policy director. "If GM crops are grown in this country we will see more contamination problems and consumers will be faced with higher costs to stay GM-free."
Extract from Natural Products magazine, March 2004

PHILLIP DAY'S COMMENT: Another strong reason to dump the pesky bean.

Confused About Soy?
www.soyonlineservice.co.nz/

• High levels of phytic acid in soy reduce assimilation of calcium, magnesium, copper, iron and zinc. Phytic acid in soy is not neutralised by ordinary preparation methods such as soaking, sprouting and long, slow cooking. High phytate diets have caused growth problems in children.
  
• Trypsin inhibitors in soy interfere with protein digestion and may cause pancreatic disorders. In test animals soy containing trypsin inhibitors caused stunted growth.
  
• Soy phytoestrogens disrupt endocrine function and have the potential to cause infertility and to promote breast cancer in adult women.
  
• Soy phytoestrogens are potent antithyroid agents that cause hypothyroidism and may cause thyroid cancer. In infants, consumption of soy formula has been linked to autoimmune thyroid disease. Around 13 million Americans today suffer from thyroid problems. Approximately 60% of foods sold to Americans contain some form of soy derivative.
  
• Vitamin B12 analogs in soy are not absorbed and actually increase the body's requirement for B12.
  
• Soy foods increase the body's requirement for vitamin D.
  
• Fragile proteins are denatured during high temperature processing to make soy protein isolate and textured vegetable protein.
  
• Processing of soy protein results in the formation of toxic lysinoalanine and highly carcinogenic nitrosamines.
  
• Free glutamic acid or MSG, a potent neurotoxin, is formed during soy food processing and additional amounts are added to many soy foods.
  
• Soy foods contain high levels of aluminium which is toxic to the nervous system and the kidneys.

Soy Index Newest Research On Why You Should Avoid Soy - by Sally Fallon & Mary G. Enig, Ph.D. - What was once a minor crop, listed in the 1913 US Department of Agriculture (USDA) handbook as an industrial product, now covers 72 million acres of American farmland.

Soy May Cause Cancer and Brain Damage - Two senior US government scientists have revealed that chemicals in soy could increase the risk of breast cancer in women, brain damage in both men and women, and abnormalities in infants.

The Trouble With Tofu: Soy and the Brain -by John D. MacArthur - "Tofu Shrinks Brain!" Not a science fiction scenario, this sobering soybean revelation is for real. But how did the "poster bean" of the '90s go wrong? Apparently, in many ways - none of which bode well for the brain.

Soy: Too Good to be True - by Brandon Finucan & Charlotte Gerson - While even in 1966 there was considerable research on the harmful substances within soybeans, you'll be hard pressed to find articles today that claim soy is anything short of a miracle-food. As soy gains more and more popularity through industry advertising, we are moved once again to raise
our voice of concern.

Learn The Truth About The Historical Use Of Soy - Just How Much Soy Did Asians Eat? In short, not that much, and contrary to what the industry may claim, soy has never been a staple in Asia. A study of the history of soy use in Asia shows that the poor used it during times of extreme food shortage, and only when the soybeans were carefully prepared (e.g. by lengthy fermentation) to destroy the soy toxins. Yes, the Asians understood soy all right!

High Soy Diet During Pregnancy And Nursing May Cause Developmental Changes In Children - Two separate studies - one in animals and the other in humans, suggest that a diet high in soybeans and other legumes during pregnancy and breastfeeding may have a subtle but long-term impact on the development of children.

Concerns Regarding Soybeans - Some good information abstracted from an article written by Sally Fallon and Mary Enig, Ph.D. for Health Freedom News in September of 1995.

Soy Can Cause Severe Allergic Reactions - Soy, like its botanically-related cousin the peanut, could be responsible for severe, potentially fatal, cases of food allergy, particularly in children with asthma who are also very sensitive to peanuts.

Soy Supplements Fail to Help Menopause Symptoms - Supplements that contain concentrated phytoestrogens -- plant-based estrogens found in soy -- do not appear to improve mood, memory or menopause symptoms in women over age 45.

20/20 Feature on the Dangers of Soy - The ABC television news program 20/20 aired a feature story Friday June 8, 2000 on the dangers of soy.

Soy Formulas and the Effects of Isoflavones on the Thyroid - Environmental scientist and long-time campaigner against soy-based infant formulas, Dr Mike Fitzpatrick, warns about the risk of thyroid disease in infants fed soy formulas, high soy consumers and users of isoflavone supplements.

Pregnant Women Should Not Eat Soy Products - In-utero exposure to genistein increases the incidence of breast tumors.

Soybean Crisis - Jane Phillimore of The Observer addresses some of the concerns raised by new research about the safety of soy.

Response To Those Who Believe Soy Is Healthy - In a recent Letter to the Editor of the Townsend Letter, Sally Fallon and Dr. Mary Enig make the case that soy is not the health food that it is claimed to be. The soy campaign is, in fact, a case study in the use of propaganda to promote commercial interests, they allege.

Soy Can Lead to Kidney Stones - Those who are prone to the painful condition known as kidney stones may become more vulnerable to it through the consumption of soy.

PHILLIP DAY'S COMMENT: I periodically give soy the hammering it deserves, and those consuming the product, especially in its unfermented state (soy milk, soy meats, etc) need to make an informed decision about its continued use. The ubiquity and sneakiness of soy placement makes it hard to avoid. Small amounts of fermented soy, protein isolates, etc., in my estimation, are not the problem. The huge amounts of isoflavones consumed by those seeking to avoid cow's milk by drinking 'bean milk' are something else. Did you ever squeeze a soy bean and get milk out of it? You've got to hand it to Monsanto for the greatest PR job of all time. Take something useless and, worse, dangerous to your health, and sell it as a health food. Next thing you know, these people will be running our country!

What…? They're already running our country?

Further Resources:
The ABC's of Disease by Phillip Day
Food for Thought by Phillip Day

US Sugar Barons 'Block Global War on Obesity'
Jo Revill and Paul Harris

Leading scientists accused the Bush administration last night of putting the interests of powerful American sugar barons ahead of the global fight against obesity.

Professor Kaare Norum, leader of the World Health Organisation's fight to prevent millions developing diet-related diseases, has sparked an international war of words with a highly critical letter to US Health Secretary Tommy Thompson. In it he tells of his grave concern over American opposition to the WHO's blueprint to combat obesity. He accuses the US of making the health of millions of young Americans 'a hostage to fortune' because it has failed to take action over the fat epidemic as a result of its business interests, particularly the sugar lobby. Since 1990, successive US governments have blocked WHO calls for action, claims Norum, professor of medicine at Oslo University.

"Obesity rates have risen so that now one in three Americans bears the burden of the very high health risks associated with this condition, with the poorest and most vulnerable worst affected," he says. "Obesity rates among American children have risen by 50 per cent."

Norum is the most senior scientist involved in an attempt to formulate a worldwide policy to fight heart disease and diabetes resulting from a junk food diet. An estimated 60 per cent of disease worldwide is now due to cardiovascular illness, which causes 47 per cent of deaths.

The letter from Norum will put Bush under intense pressure at home to show that he is serious about tackling the epidemic. More than half of all Americans are overweight, and in some states, including Bush's Texas, nearly one-third of the population is classified obese.

The President insists fighting fat is a matter for the individual, not the state. But today The Observer reveals how he and fellow senators have received hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding from 'Big Sugar'. One of his main fundraisers is sugar baron Jose 'Pepe' Fanjul, head of Florida Crystals, who has raised at least $100,000 for November's presidential re-election campaign.

Norum's letter is an angry response to the Americans' decision to submit a 30-page report, criticising the WHO strategy for its lack of sound scientific evidence. It will be discussed at a key meeting of its executive board in Geneva on Tuesday.

The Bush administration, which receives millions in funding from the sugar industry, argues there is little robust evidence to show that drinking sugary drinks or eating too much sugar is a direct cause of obesity. It particularly opposes a recommendation that just 10 per cent of people's energy intake should come from added sugar. The US has a 25 per cent guideline.

Thompson's representative at Tuesday's meeting will be Bill Steiger, godson of George Bush Sr. He will argue there is no evidence that selling junk food to children increases overweight.
Another leading obesity expert supported Norum, describing America's position as a scandal.

Professor Philip James, head of the International Obesity Task Force, a thinktank for experts worldwide said: "People are far more tuned into what is now a much bigger obesity crisis and are more aware of some of the dangers such as diabetes. When they begin to see children developing these severe health problems, it brings home to people that this is not some vague risk in the future - it is happening here and now."

Thompson is also due to speak at the World Economic Forum in Davos next week, where he is expected to have a private meeting with Douglas Daft, president of The Coca-Cola Company, one of the major users of American cane sugar and sweeteners.

In an Observer interview today, Britain's Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell urges people who take little or no exercise to start hobbies like DIY and gardening to get active, saying that she wants people to take responsibility for their fitness.

In the UK, nearly 16 per cent of teenagers were found to be obese in 2000 - three times the number reported in 1990.
The Observer, 18th January 2004

The Mailbag
Some of February's correspondence from our members

"I think CTM is brilliant and I applaud all your efforts in bringing the truth to the public. As a nurse, I have seen the subtle practices of the pharmaceutical companies and how they can manipulate the minds of the practitioners in thinking that drugs are the only way. I thank God that my eyes have been opened and I can now use my communication skills to warn people about being deceived. Never give up on your God-given mission. May He bless you all!" - Sue B., Bedfordshire, UK

"I agree that it is important for people to be more informed on choices. It is very worrying that valuable information obtained from scientific nutritional studies is not being reported, and yet there is a constant source of info on footballers/TV stars lives. A very sad reflection on our society." - Dr Louise W., North Lanarkshire, UK

"Nothing surprises me any more. I do worry that young people aren't interested. Almost all of the audience attending Phillip Day's excellent talk in Chester last night were middle-aged or older. My own sons tell me they don't want to know."- Anne G., Cheshire, UK

"Excellent work! Should be made known to all hospitals and oncology consultants and cancer specialists to educate them in natural alternatives perhaps with talks or videos sent to all hospitals and associations locally to spread the word - with proper guidance from your organization - in the form of a presentational pack." - Raymond C., East Sussex, UK

"Absolutely fantastic! Keep it up! Been to a few Phillip Day lectures and found them all riveting. Could listen to him all night." - Linne O., North Yorkshire, UK

"I wholeheartedly agree with the information in the book (Health Wars). I think it is a tragedy to leave our health in the hands of profit-motive individuals. We need to know the truth. The more people know the truth, the pressure will increase to force the "mainstream health providers" to do the right thing. I believe organizations like this are crucial in getting the message out. My background was in finance and marketing. I have committed to a life-long quest for wellness and to help as many people as possible through nutrition education, alternative health practices and physical activity." - Shannon W. Jr., Maryland, USA

"About time! Go guys go!" - Ms Sophie C., South Australia

"Today's globalisation is placing a greater demand on corporations to provide better returns on their investments. These companies are foregoing the truth to invent drugs that temporarily reduce symptoms of the primary disease and have no consideration of any long-term side-effects." - Vince S., South Australia

"Anything which highlights the current hypocrisy in our medical profession is to be applauded" - Patricia P., London, UK

"I believe strongly in the CTM mission of educating people in regards to cancer and the current insane 'popular' treatments. I remember being told by a chemistry professor 30 years ago that there would never be a 'cure' for cancer as there were too many people making too much money off the research dollars and the barbaric 'cures' put forth by the medical establishment and 'research' directors. Over the years this has turned into a bigger and bigger nightmare as the preventative measures against cancer as well as the thousands of recoveries through alternative means are scorned, laughed at or ignored. This is a travesty on the proper education and health of our people. It has often become a political issue (Nixon's speech on finding the cure) and with the enormous amount of money involved." - Joanne L., Florida, USA

"We wholly endorse your ideas and methodologies being familiar with the barriers put in place to block the development of 'wellness' promoting products and technologies." - Neil C., Canterbury, New Zealand

"Being a physical educator it appals me that governments of the western world are giving the nod, the wink (and the healthcare subsidy) to the members of the medical industry who treat their clients with symptom-masking pharmaceuticals instead of prescribing sensible diet regimes, vigorous exercise programs, lifestyle coaching and meditation." - John M., ACT, Australia

"Thanks. Inspiring talk at Aberdeen - gave me encouragement to question current medication" - Liz H., Aberdeen, UK

"I think what you're doing is absolutely wonderful and vitally necessary. Thanks a million. The body was created to heal itself if only we'd feed it the right substances, all found in nature itself." - Jenny R., Queensland, Australia

"What you are saying are my feelings exactly. Nobody in the "Cancer Industry" (research or pharmaceuticals) really wants to find a cure as it would end a multi- billion dollar industry overnight. It was stated on TV today by a man who was raising money through Macmillan Cancer Research by targeting children and explaining cancer to them, that "cancer is on the increase." Of course it is on the increase, because they do not want to find the cause for the reasons above. I am so ANGRY that alternative methods of removing cancer have not been researched, yet we, the public, seem powerless to change the minds of the orthodox medical people. A way forward could be to co-ordinate people world-wide to buy shares in these companies, so that we have a voice within the company. Use their own system to destroy them. It is forgotten that we, the people, have the power. There are more of us than them, and this power should be mobilised." - Brian G., London, UK

"Phillip Day's books, 'Cancer: Why We're Still Dying to Know The Truth' and 'Food for Thought', the nutritional supplements he recommended, apricot kernels and the help of others helped me to get my cancer (lymphoma) under control after 10 months of chemotherapy followed by two operations hadn't helped me."- Mrs Trudy F., NSW. , Australia

"The more I read the more I want to know. I cannot understand family and friends who ignore this information. Perhaps they want to die."- Margaret B., NSW., Australia

"I was diagnosed with cancer a year ago, tried all the conventional medical treatments, which caused terrible side-effects and did nothing to cure or halt the growth of the cancer. Since then I have been doing alternative therapies, mind-body works and focusing on nutritional changes to great effect. I think the CTM mission is great and will give people a lot of information on the truth in relation to the current healthcare system and the drug companies' role in same." - Rachel McC., Co Tipperary, Ireland

"I have just seen the video by Phillip Day [The Real Face of the European Union]. This is a superb film and deserves the widest possible audience within the next year before its message is overtaken by events. In my opinion this video is far superior than anything available before. It is impossible to watch this video and remain complacent, unless you are totally prejudiced in favour of joining a Federal European State, regardless of the consequences.

I have organised a series of public meetings in the New Forest entitled 'Say NO to the European Union' at which this video will deliver a powerful message. Also, as a branch, we offer talks on the European Union to local organisations such as Probus and the RAF Association, again without charge. Of course we also wish to show this film to our local members." - Bruce C., London, UK

"I have a very strong interest in your work as I was diagnosed with breast cancer 1 ½ years ago. I finished my conventional treatment in February 2003 and am still suffering from the side-effects and am unable to work. I am now very angry that the information you have made available was not given to me when I was diagnosed. Here we have a public sector run on public funding being manipulated by private industries, which all results in important information not being given to the public." - Miss Theresa B., Nottinghamshire, UK

"Health Wars! Interesting reading the misinformation and deception by powerful interest groups that have an impact on our lives… We, as individuals, need to re-establish and take responsibility for the truth of our own lives and be heard." - Justin S., Victoria, Australia

"More power to you! Keep up the good work." - Carla R., Georgia, USA

"I purchased "The Mind Game" at Phillip Day's seminar in Hamilton which confirmed my personal opinions on Mental Health Systems (I have a son who is trying to do orthomolecular treatment for schizophrenia but is constantly thwarted by the system, thereby deteriorating." - Mrs Grace S., Hamilton, New Zealand

"I was most blessed to hear and see Phillip in Brisbane. He is truly a breath of fresh air. Thank God for people like Phillip who are concerned for our health situation and doing something about it. My prayer is that we may all be open to being re-educated on nutrition, internally and externally. May all who are involved be blessed and sustained by God to help us get back to basics. Well done by all." - Peta & Brett F., Queensland, Australia

"Excellent talk. Been saying all the same stuff for past 10 years in Health & Nutrition. The political angle is dynamite! Well done f0r having the b..ls. I back you 100%. Bought 6 copies of "Ten Minutes to Midnight" to spread the word." - Tessa S., Worcestershire UK

"Thank you for changing our lives!" - Julie A., NSW, Australia

"Very clearly presented and very edifying. Thank you. We believe in your campaign." - Murray B., New South Wales, Australia

"I have been nursing for 23 years. For many years I have used complementary medicines. I totally agree with what you are doing. May you prosper and inform the people." - Eileen K., Wiltshire, UK

"As a biochemist who has worked in medical research for 27 years, it is wonderful to hear someone so informed and voluble about fears held by many for years. I'm now a holistic therapist." - Paula M., Cheshire, UK

"I am doing a Natural Nutrition Diploma and find your work fascinating. I was led to this by my own poor health and my baby being born dairy intolerant when she was breast-fed." - Claire McC., UK

"Thoroughly enjoyed the Aberdeen session. Thank you for coming!" - Jillian W., Banffshire, UK

And finally…
A Small Piece on Flight Maintenance

All aircraft operators use a system to handle complaints of faults reported by the crew together with a note of the remedial action taken. Here are some examples with cynical replies by ground staff.

P - indicates the nature of the fault
S - the action taken by ground staff

P: Left inside main tyre almost needs replacement
S: Almost replaced left inside main tyre

P: Test flight ok except auto-land very rough
S: Auto-land not installed in this aircraft

P: Something loose in cockpit
S: Something tightened in cockpit

P: Autopilot in altitude mode produces a 200 feet per minute descent
S; Difficult to reproduce problem on ground

P: Evidence of leak on right main landing gear
S: Evidence removed

P: DME volume unbelievable loud
S: DME volume set to more believable level

P: Friction locks cause throttle levers to stick
S: That's what they're there for

P: IFF inoperative
S: IFF always inoperative in OFF mode

P: Suspected crack in windshield
S: Suspect you're right

P: Number three engine missing
S: Engine found on right wing after brief search

P: Aircraft handles funny
S: Aircraft warned to straighten up, fly right and be serious

P: Target radar hums
S: Target radar reprogrammed with lyrics

P: Noise coming from under instrument pane. Sounds like a midget pounding
on something with a hammer
S: Took hammer away from midget

P: Mouse in cockpit
S: Cat installed

P: Dead bugs on windshield
S: Live bugs on order.

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