Up Close and Personal
The monthly comment from CTM founder, Phillip Day

While the northern hemisphere shivers with winter's bite, chook flu continues its inexorable advance on our back door. Yet another vaccine planned for toddlers too (though now even doctors are warning people off the idea in view of the feared side-effects). Statins have been cleared for mass distribution, potentially a quarter of Britons could be taking the anti-cholesterol drugs even though they won't be sick.

Sigh.

Welcome to another episode in the hospital series, Doctor Knows Best - the global medical soap-opera wherein diet and lifestyle go out of the window, drugs will cure you, and any conflict against the status quo is put down to iconoclastic, veggie-juicing whale-kissers with a treatable case of Oppositional Defiant Disorder.

In my current What's News? tour of the UK/Ireland, I examine such health issues through the eyes of the media, as well as cover the latest on Attitude (part 2), cancer, heart disease, goal-setting, minor complaints, and much more.

Also, my latest DVD nears completion and is entitled, Modern Miracles. Many thanks, by the way, to the dozens who took part and went on camera to recount their amazing recovery experiences. Many in the film had been told their futures were bleak, yet survived to their physicians' surprise to tell of their deliverance. Tom Malley sent us part of the Spanish magazine, Round Town News, which has written up his cancer recovery using - gasp - the Different Approach. In Modern Miracles, you will meet many like Tom who took control of their illness, researched it, and found the answer lay in simple, straight-forward changes to diet and lifestyle, which they do not teach doctors at medical school; changes indeed that are routinely scoffed at by professionals who cannot bring themselves to believe in the awesome logic and mastery of nature.

The live CD of my ABC's of Disease tour, recorded in Australia, also nears completion (unexpected delays too complicated to relate, forgive me). From Acne to Varicose Veins, from Cancer to Arthritis, this talk will provide a veritable well-spring of after-dinner topics sure to wow your boss and his neighbours, or else leave them hatchet-faced, with the usual, uncomprehending stares!

So, to this month's bulletin. The Alliance for Natural Health gives its year-start update on the EU's moves to half-inch our supplements. Dr Robert Verkerk has documented Brussels' timetable of shame and gives us the Alliance's own strategy for 2006. This month, also, two US fluoride victories (the most poisoned nation on Earth), Steve Ransom's excellent piece on cancer misdiagnosis, a psychiatrist on psychiatry, a warning over Viagra, the importance of fish oil and a profile on Alzheimer's.

So, read on, folks, and keep spreading the good news. We get the e-mails. Something is working out there.

Best wishes,

Phillip Day

Phillip Day is currently touring Britain and Ireland with his fascinating new talk, What's News?. To find the venue nearest you, click here.