Up Close and Personal
The monthly overview by CTM Founder, Phillip Day

I'm writing this as Samantha and I busily pack to head out to our Simple Changes seminar in Malta. And guess what? Regular as clockwork more terrorist woes, so now laptops, projectors and every valuable thing have to be checked in as hold luggage. (Can't wait to see how many bits they end up in the other end).

Ticketing has now commenced for my Simple Changes Australia/New Zealand tour for October and November. DON'T MISS THIS! Spread the word and get those skeptics you call relatives along to get the confirmation they need. The testimonies DVD is also finished! This 30-minute, indispensable life-saver features your incredible stories and is a total inspiration. This will be ideal for health-marketers or just for stubborn old Aunt Hilda who won't listen to a word you have tell her, but might take it from a complete stranger. The film is entitled 'Be Wise, Be Well! - Your Testimonies, in Your Words' and will be available in Europe from 1st September and everywhere else from 1st October (on Oz/NZ tour).

The Simple Changes book is now finished and off to the printers. Release date is 1st October and included in this EClub bulletin to whet your appetite are two of my favourite 100 icons: Attack Political Correctness and Take Responsibility for Your Actions. Rather timely in view of current developments and how we interpret them. Along with these two this EClub, we have the usual heaving crop of problems and what you can do about them.

The British Health and Safety Gestapo continue their liberal pogroms. The brass pole in British fire stations is now banned in case our intrepid firefighters fall and hurt themselves as they slide down. Professor Sir Liam Donaldson, Britain's chief medical officer, believes there is too much complacency about errors in healthcare which result in the deaths of patients (heavens, really?) Apparently, Sir Liam reckons the medical profession should learn from the airline industry how to reduce mistakes… rather than "…looking at harm and deaths that occur to patients as one-off events.' He states, 'we should look at connections and similarities, the common causes, and use them as a source for learning and action just as the airline industry has done." Has he travelled by British Airways lately?

Next: 'Good Diet Helps in Cancer' - official!

Next: More woes for the 'Elephant Man' guinea-pigs, one of whom now has early signs of cancer as a result of the Parexel trial. Sadly, the £2,000 they received doesn't seem such a bargain now. Here is the lesson: NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER partake in medical trials, all right? NEVER! In fact, I reported a while ago a number of drug companies were becoming cash-strapped as the health trend moved away from drugs towards better living. Now what do we learn? In return for the NHS coughing up to help pay for their clinical trials (i.e. my money), the drug companies will pay them a rake-off in subsequent drug profits. Translated: the more drugs the National Health Service doles out, the more of my cash it'll receive. Nice.

Next: Processed meats can cause stomach cancer - something I covered years ago in Health Wars (how many have since died waiting for Reuters to make it official?). Everyone's wondering where the autism epidemic in Britain is coming from. 'Various theories have been put forward to explain the rising number autism diagnoses,' one source states, 'including increased exposure to pesticides, pollution and childhood vaccination.' Boy, I remember a vicious British radio host with worrying hair going apoplectic when I dared implicate the above.

Next: More on the amazing cancer-fighting abilities of curcuminoids (curry), which will please Neways (Revenol). Onions are great too, and also for Internet dating. Another tampon warning - thank you, Shelley R. Peter Hitchens has an excellent article on British politics and the EU, so if there's such a thing as a patriot left in the country, you'll find a kindred spirit in this much maligned but hilariously articulate skull-cracker.

That's it! Have a grand August and I'll be Down Under before you know it. Meanwhile, off Sam and I trot to Gatwick to brave the cattle prods and rubber-gloves (the terrible sacrifices we make in the name of freedom). If I'm walking funny when we meet at the Radisson, Alfred, it won't be because of the old rugby injury.

Ciao,

Phillip