Up Close and Personal
The Monthly Interview with CTM Founder, Phillip Day

ECLUB: I understand you are not fond of the Royal Mail right now.
PHILLIP DAY: Seething. My apologies first to the thousands of Americans who received the flyer notifying them of my US Break Free tour FOUR MONTHS LATE, and over three months after the tour itself began.
ECLUB: What was the problem?
PHILLIP DAY: The Royal Mail's the problem. No accountability. Bovine incompetence. And no comeback. It's quite distressing how a supposedly professional and accountable organisation can mess up to the degree that it does (much of the mail in the UK is now delivered late and a chunk of it not at all). No-one's particularly bothered. If I ran my organisation the way the Royal Mail run theirs, I'd be bankrupt or in jail within a year. Anyway, folks, please don't keep ringing Credence USA and giving them an earful as the flyers keep turning up. It's obviously a tragic error, OK? We'll know better not to use them next time.
ECLUB: So, what have you got for us this month?
PHILLIP DAY: A special feature on the teenage angst, acne (also the adult version, acne rosacea). A special also on fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the yeast overgrowth connection. More on the dangers of mammography from none other than Prof. Samuel Epstein himself, in my view one of the world's leading toxicologist. Ladies, if you are still irradiating yourselves, please read this article.
ECLUB: Mammograms causing breast cancer.
PHILLIP DAY: These beastly scans load in up to 1,000 times the rads of a chest x-ray, and the idea that they are 'life-saving early detection' is patent rubbish. In more than a few cases, they can spell the downfall of the unsuspecting. Much of what shows up will be DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ), a non-invasion lesion that almost never goes on to become anything. Also, calcium oxalate deposits, an indication of fungal metabolism. If you insist on scanning, use the safe alternatives: infrared thermography, sonography, breast self-exam…
ECLUB: I had a sneak preview at the prostate PSA article. Wow!
PHILLIP DAY: PSA (the prostate specific antigen test) is now 'officially' useless as an indicator of anything other than prostate size. Most men will die with an enlarged prostate, not of it, and yet in the past, a high PSA reading often triggered surgical castration via prostectomy in a ridiculous attempt to 'make the cancer go away' when the patient often had nothing the matter with them to begin with.
ECLUB: Shades of women having mastectomies for DCIS readings.
PHILLIP DAY: Precisely.
ECLUB: You're going hard again on TETRA and those beastly masts, aren't you?
PHILLIP DAY: TETRA's the British government's new emergency radio system which has spawned over three thousand masts around the countryside and in cities, in addition to the huge numbers of mobile telephone masts already in place. Telecoms companies are now placing smaller masts on lamp posts also in an attempt to avoid all the public ranting that has understandably accompanied such irresponsible radiation placements. Here it comes again: RADIATION CAUSES CANCER. Mammograms, radiotherapy, mobile telephones, TETRA, even police officers getting testicular cancer waiting in their squad cars with the speed gun in their lap.
ECLUB: Boy, you're breaking my heart with these kinds of stories. What else?
PHILLIP DAY: A sinister new national children's database in the UK. To protect our children of course by making sure they have their vaccinations and mental health checks. We are also doing another fly-by of the toxic personal care and household products issue in the home. In fact, speaking on toxins, Professor Paul Connett of the world-encompassing Fluoridation Action Network (FAN) is touring Australia in his admirable, relentless bid to get the disgusting practice of poisoning the public water supply tossed out for good. Paul, if you're reading this, take the yellow chicken.
ECLUB: I beg your pardon?
PHILLIP DAY: The good Professor sometimes takes along a large yellow chicken and challenges it to a debate when the pro-fluoridation officials fail to show to give an account of their bogus science.
ECLUB: What's this about the BBC, Jesus and apricot kernels?
PHILLIP DAY: A story to warm the cockles of thy heart, Brian. A Christian lady from the island of Jersey who was diagnosed with 'terminal' pancreatic cancer gets spiritual and practical in the face of her mountain. This is truly an inspirational guide to anyone facing a similar prognosis. I won't spoil by blabbering further about it. However, a touching story in this morning's Daily Mail (21st September 2004), p. 23 entitled 'The Last Flight of Red Two'. The heartbreaking predicament of one of the Red Arrow pilots (of the famous British jet aerobatic team) who has been given a 'terminal' diagnosis of bile duct cancer.
ECLUB: I saw that too.
PHILLIP DAY: The lads gave him a victory lap in one of the few remaining Spitfires, which was doubtless completely amazing. The picture shows the lone fighter bracketed either side by the red jets with their streaming smoke-trails.
ECLUB: Anything we can do?
PHILLIP DAY: Let's all have a go trying to get in contact with Flight Lieutenant Matt 'Jarvo' Jarvis and point him to the Credence Internet cancer tour. As many of us as possible should e-mail the reporter, Bill Mouland, and get him to forward the link to yell a resounding 'Tally Ho!' to the brave aviator and tell him to get juicing those leafy green veggies and doing the necessary. It ain't over till the last Spitfire rumbles off into the blue.
ECLUB: A metaphor perhaps for Britain's predicament with the EU?
PHILLIP DAY: Don't get me started.
ECLUB: Thank you, Phillip.

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Dagger at Democracy
The UK Civil Contingencies Bill
by Elizabeth Gray

Lord Lucas, speaking in the House of Lords during the 5th July second reading, came to the point:

"Are we opening up our system to the equivalent of what happened in Germany in 1933, where it became possible for an extreme party legitimately to hijack a democracy and turn it into something totalitarian? They [New Labour] appear to want a role of issuing diktats."

He concluded by calling for amendments to the Bill which would safeguard our rights, "or we are signing our death warrant as a democracy". That is exactly the issue and the menace.

Lord Lucas was not exaggerating.

The Civil Contingencies Bill, which is not far from passage (and demands radical amendment), enables the Government to declare a State of Emergency on practically any grounds - insignificant events (e.g. "damage to property"); "threatened" insignificant events (e.g. threatened disruption of a supply of money), even a "situation" would do, even a situation occurring outside the United Kingdom.

If Parliament then approves the State of Emergency insisted upon by the Government (most of them know how to use a rubber stamp), then the Government can effectively rule by decree - dictatorial power.

As the forthright, libertarian Lord Lucas said, "We can run on from there and ask at what point we recover our democracy." The reader of this article can guess at the answer as well as anyone.

If the loss of democracy and civil liberties is of little concern to a particular reader, then consider the clause in the Bill that provides for the confiscation of property, "with or without compensation."

This horrific Bill went through the House of Commons with paltry discussion, little opposition, and silence from the irresponsible corporate News Media. And the News Media remains silent as it proceeds through the House of Lords.

This Bill should be REJECTED OUTRIGHT
or amended to remove the obvious
threats to the democratic process

What kind of amendments should be proposed?

1. Justifications for declaring an Emergency. Only an actual disaster should be grounds for declaring an Emergency. And "disaster" means a real disaster, and one that occurs within the UK.
2. No suspension of democracy.
3. No suspension of Parliament.
4. No suspension of Civil Liberties.
5. Coalition Government. No single party dictatorship.
6. Parliamentary Approval of the emergency by two-third vote.

An edited report from Namaste Magazine.

Important sites:
Statewatch criticises the Bill sharply at www.statewatch.org
Freedom Association: www.tfa.net
New Alliance www.newalliance.org.uk
For more information on Namaste Magazine visit www.namastepublishing.co.uk

PHILLIP DAY'S COMMENT: Of course, we should not be surprised that while everyone was 'ooohing' at the storming of Parliament and rioting outside in the square by pro-hunt lobbyists and supporters, this pernicious piece of legislation was sneaking its way through the Lords like a cockroach in a parlour bar while the media kept its shameful silence. Simon Heffer wrote a piece in the Daily Mail wondering whether Britain was indeed already a totalitarian state wherein the dictator and his party pretty much did as they wanted. Given the lack of accountability and the cynicism in which honest due process is held, this is actually a far bigger problem than New Labour. These types of laws can now never be passed without sanction from the EU. With other EU nations ominously fielding similar draconian laws, one cannot help but be reminded of 1930's Europe with the rise of the totalitarian menace in Spain, Germany, Italy, Russia and Austria.

21st Century Britain will come to the boil soon enough if the desire for accountable self-rule continues to be ignored. So much for liberal rights for everyone and responsibilities for none. Have our rulers become the very things they despised and railed against in their university days?

Further Resources
Spread the word to friends with The Real Face of the European Union by Phillip Day, a video documentary (PAL format only) which lays out the serious problems with the European Union and what you can do about it. Also, don't miss the two following incisive commentaries on the dangers of Britain's involvement with the EU:

Ten Minutes to Midnight by Phillip Day
Vigilance by Ashley Mote
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Now EU Bids to Hijack Olympic Glory
by Steve Doughty and Matthew Bailey

British athletes could have to compete under the European flag at future Olympics in a remarkable attempt by Brussels to hijack their success. EU leaders want all member countries to carry the blue 12-star banner as well as their own flag, starting at the next Games in Beijing.

Behind the move is the desire to present the United States of Europe as the world's major sporting power - EU nations won 286 medals in Athens compared with 103 for the US.

But the Brussels grab for the spoils of sporting victory was condemned by Britain's gold medal winners as they arrived home last night to a heroes' welcome. Kelly Holmes, queen of the 800 and 1500 metres, said: "It's not something I'd like to see."

Rower James Cracknell said: "This seems silly. I'm happy with the British flag, thank you." And sprinter Darren Campbell said: "If that happens I won't be there. I am British and proud to be representing Britain. I won't be competing under any other flag, ever. This is completely stupid."

British Olympians gained an historic haul of 30 medals including nine golds in Athens and repeatedly draped themselves in the Union Flag following their victories.

But last night, European Commission President, Romano Prodi, took the unprecedented step of claiming that medal successes belonged not to any one country but to Europe - and that in future athletes should be made to show it.

"In 2008 I hope to see the EU member state teams in Beijing carry the flag of the European Union alongside their own national flag as a symbol of our unity," he said.

Mr Prodi's spokesman, Reijo Kemppinen, described the EU's 'magnificent performance' as led by Germany, which took 14 gold medals and 48 medals in total at the Athens' Games, with France, Italy and Britain close behind. He also said that by the time of the Beijing Olympics in 2008, countries such as Bulgaria and Romania are likely to have joined the EU, boosting its performance to 'rival the dominance of Far Eastern countries' in sports such as weight lifting and gymnastics.

Mr Kemppinen himself comes from Finland, where the population is demanding an inquest into the failure of the country with a strong athletic tradition to win a single gold medal in the Athens games.

The British Olympic Association said the proposal was unrealistic. Spokesman Philip Pope said: "Under the Olympic charter any competing nation has to be an internationally recognised state. Until the EU becomes an internationally recognised state we will be marching as Great Britain."

However the EU will become an internationally recognised state by 2008 if its new constitution is accepted.

It could demand recognition from the International Olympic Committee, which could then insist in turn that British athletes carry an EU flag alongside the Union Flag.

This is the latest in the series of clumsy assaults on Britain's independent standing by Mr Prodi. Last month he alarmed Chancellor Gordon Brown by demanding an end to Britain's £3 billion-a-year rebate on contributions to Brussels won 20 years ago by Mrs Thatcher.

During the summer he warned of heavy consequences and legal ramifications if Britain fails to ratify the EU constitution following the referendum promised by Tony Blair.

Mr Prodi is to step down in October and his imminent departure is likely to have left him feeling free to express federalist opinions that he knows will outrage the British public.

However the Olympic flag idea lays down a marker for his successor, Portuguese politician Jose Manuel Durao Barrosa, to follow.

Allan Wells, the Scottish sprinter who won the 100 meters at the 1980 Games in Moscow, said it would detract from the honour of being picked to represent Great Britain.

"We already march as a united England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland," he said. "I don't think we want to dilute it any more."
Daily Mail, 31st August 2004

Further Resources
Fed up with the EU and the dangers it presents to UK independence and sovereignty? Spread the word to friends with The Real Face of the European Union by Phillip Day, a video documentary (PAL format only) which lays out the serious problems with the European Union and what you can do about it. Also, don't miss the two following incisive commentaries on the dangers of Britain's involvement with the EU:

French Rift Over EU Vote
by Colin Randall in Paris

The former French prime minister Laurent Fabius has thrown the country's socialist opposition into disarray by breaking ranks with the party leadership to threaten a No vote when France votes on the European constitution.

The stance of Mr Fabius, who sees himself as the Left's contender for the French presidency in 2007, puts in jeopardy President Jacques Chirac's hopes of building sufficient national consensus before next year's referendum.

Defying calls for party unity, Mr Fabius, who is number two in the Socialist Party to François Hollande, has seized on public disquiet about the relocation of French factories to the European Union's new members or outside to non-EU states, to harden his position from "No, but" to a straightforward No.

Although the party's formal policy will be declared in November, Mr Hollande and senior colleagues, including the former education minister Jack Lang, have already expressed support for the constitution. Both Mr Hollande and Mr Lang are also in the race for the Elysee.

Mr Lang condemned the outbreak of in-party skirmishing as "surreal" at a time when socialists should be celebrating electoral gains. He voiced alarm that his party had nothing better to do than stage a "catfight" over a referendum that was a year away.

The most vociferous opposition to the treaty throughout the EU is that it goes too far, but Mr Fabius objects that it is not ambitious enough.

An arch-federalist, he has previously called for an "avant garde" of European states, an obvious reference to the Franco-German axis, to push ahead with deeper integration.

Two years ago, when finance minister in the last socialist government, he described tax harmonisation as a logical follow-up to the launch of the euro.

He now defends his attacks on the constitution by citing British determination not to abandon the requirement for unanimous votes on tax. "It is sometimes by saying no that you advance your position," he said.
The Daily Telegraph, 14th September 2004

Further Resources
Spread the word to friends with The Real Face of the European Union by Phillip Day, a video documentary (PAL format only) which lays out the serious problems with the European Union and what you can do about it. Also, don't miss the two following incisive commentaries on the dangers of Britain's involvement with the EU:

Art Show Sees Europe as 'New Roman Empire'
by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

The European Union is poised to overtake America to become the premier superpower, according to an EU exhibition launched yesterday in the heart of Brussels.

The pop-art collage mounted in a tent outside the European Commission narrates 50 years of EU history and projects events into the future in an unusually frank display of European ambition.

Segments sketched across 80 yards of canvas predict that the 21st century will be the "European Century" as the EU pushes its borders deep into Eurasia, North Africa, and the Middle East and comes to dominate world affairs through its vast "legal and moral reach".

Under the heading the "Roman Empire returns", it says the EU will be renamed "The Union" once it grows to 50 states over the next three decades.

The United Nations headquarters will be moved to Gibraltar as the EU defends the international order against the "American onslaught".

The euro will break the "overbearing monopoly of the dollar" by 2010 as China and India switch their reserves to punish America for its "stratospheric deficit".

Casting the United States as the villain of modern times, it says: "The lonely superpower can bribe, bully or impose its will almost anywhere in the world, but when its back is turned, its policy is weakened."

Entitled "The Image of Europe", the display is not a formal expression of EU policy but it captures views that can be heard every day in the corridors and canteens of the Union's institutions.

The exhibit was co-ordinated by the European Commission and sponsored by the European Council. The EU's Dutch presidency said yesterday it was designed to narrow Europe's "iconographic deficit" by conjuring up forceful images.
The Daily Telegraph, 14th September 2004

Turkey's Muslim Millions Threaten
EU Values, Says Commissioner
by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

A European commissioner set off a furious row yesterday after warning that Europe's Christian civilisation risked being overrun by Islam. Fritz Bolkestein, the single market commissioner and a former leader of the Dutch liberals, said the European Union would "implode" in its current form if 70 million Turkish Muslims were allowed to join.

He predicted that Turkish accession would overwhelm the fragile system and finish off any lingering dreams of a fully-integrated European superstate.

In a speech at Leiden University, he compared the EU to the late Austrian-Hungarian empire, which took so many different peoples on board in such a haphazard fashion that it eventually became ungovernable.

Calling demography the "mother of politics", he said that while America had the youth and dynamism to remain the world's only superpower, and China was the rising economic power, Europe's destiny was to be "Islamised".

In comments designed to provoke fury in Ankara, he quoted the British author Bernard Lewis warning that Europe would become an extension of North Africa and the Middle East by the end of the century.

The carefully-crafted speech caused consternation in Brussels where the commission is putting the finishing touches to a report due early next month that is expected to back Turkish accession.

The commission played down Mr Bolkestein's remarks, emphasising that he was speaking in a personal capacity.

But he was immediately disowned by allies in parliament. Andrew Duff, a Liberal MEP, said: "We are not slaves to prejudice or historical nostalgia. It is most unfortunate that a single commissioner has pre-empted the commission's report on Turkey in this way."

The final decision on Turkey rests with EU leaders at a Brussels summit in December. If they give the go-ahead for the start of accession talks, it sets in motion a process that becomes almost unstoppable.

Turkey would join within 10 years or so, unless blocked by referendums in EU member states.

The "Turkish Question" has mushroomed into an explosive issue in France and Germany. Public opinion in both countries has deep misgivings about further eastward expansion, fearing a flood of immigrants and a huge diversion of EU funds to the impoverished hinterland of Anatolia.

"After the accession of Turkey, the EU will not be able to continue its current agriculture and regional policies. Europe would implode," said Mr Bolkestein. His warning comes as Ankara's Islamic government presses ahead with criminalising adultery.

Feminist groups in Europe and Turkey have reacted with horror, claiming that the "reactionary" law is aimed against women but the row highlights the gulf between the cultural values of urban Europe and rural Turkey.

The European enlargement commissioner, Gunther Verheugen, appears determined to go ahead with a broadly positive verdict on Oct 6, concluding that Turkey has met the basic tests of a free market economy and pluralist democracy under the rule of law.

He said Turkey had made "impressive progress" and that its accession had reached "critical mass". The authorities have pushed through drastic reforms to the legal code and constitution during the past three years to keep Brussels happy, as well as restoring Kurdish language rights and abolishing the death penalty.

A "wise men's report", issued by a team of Europe's elder statesmen this week, said it would be unjust to deny Turkey its rightful place after waiting patiently as the ex-communist states of Eastern Europe jumped the queue.

They said Turkey had shown its "European vocation" and enjoyed a "firmly-rooted" secular tradition that was quite unlike the rest of the Muslim world.

Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, called for an emphatic endorsement of Turkey. "People need to think very carefully about the strategic implications of pushing Turkey away, of pushing Turkey to the east and to the south," he said in Prague.
The Daily Telegraph, 8th September 2004

Union Leaders Deliver Blow
to Blair's Hope for EU Constitution
by Toby Helm

Tony Blair's hopes of winning a referendum on the European constitution suffered a setback last night when the Trades Union Congress refused to give its backing to the campaign for a Yes vote.

A heated debate on the constitution at the TUC in Brighton exposed deep splits within the union movement over the direction in which Europe is moving - leaving it unable to endorse the Government's pro-constitution policy.

Without the support of the TUC, representing more than six million voters, ministers know that they have almost no chance of winning a referendum, likely to be held in 2006.

Fearing that a vote in favour would be lost, TUC organisers issued a holding statement saying it was "inappropriate" to adopt a formal position before further debate.

Bob Crow, the general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Union was one of several speakers to condemn the constitution on the grounds that it would strip Britain of its rights to determine its own economic policy.

"The constitution will institutionalise privatisation and the neo-liberal economics that have helped wreck industries in Britain and turned the EU into one of the world's low growth regions," he said in a speech greeted by cheers.

Condemning the Prime Minister's policies he added: "The bottom line is that any government that hands over power to the degree demanded by the proposed constitution is effectively no longer a government."

While some unions remain broadly in favour of the European Union and the constitution, many have now reverted to a strong anti-European line, seeing the community as geared more to the interests of business than working people. Even some of the bigger unions, including the Transport and General Workers and Amicus, the private sector union, are considering campaigning for a No vote unless they get more guarantees that the Government will push more aggressively for British workers to get equal rights to those on the Continent.

It was left to John Monks, a former congress general secretary who now heads the European TUC, to make a lone stand in favour of the constitution. Writing in a pamphlet by the Labour movement for Europe he accused those on the Left of "making common cause with Michael Howard and the Tories in opposing Britain's wholehearted engagement in Europe".

Polls show that a large majority of voters oppose the constitution.
Daily Telegraph, 16th September 2004

Acne
An Overview
by Phillip Day

Profile
Blackheads, whiteheads, nodules and cysts. Most of us, especially the fellas, know all the bad news. Young ladies too fall prone to this most unsightly of conditions, which usually contrives to show up the morning before a first date with the captain of the football team. There are three types of acne:

Acne vulgaris: a common disease caused by increased testosterone release, usually during puberty, which leads to an over-secretion of oils and waxes (sebum) produced by the sebaceous glands in the skin. Testosterone during puberty also stimulates the production of keratin proteins in the skin which can also block pores. Outbreaks usually occur on the face, but also on the back, shoulders and chest.

Acne conglobata: a more severe form of the above which can result in cysts and scarring from deep pustules which accumulate pus compounds which do not discharge their contents to the surface but infect surrounding tissue.

Acne rosacea: a condition that occurs in middle age (usually between ages 30-50), where the face becomes flushed and covered with pimples, similar to the above acne vulgaris. Thought to be caused variously by menopausal imbalances, dehydration, fungal/parasite infection, metabolic imbalances, digestive problems and malnutrition, usually a shortage of the B-vitamins.

Commentary
There's nothing much you can do about reaching puberty, except to think dark thoughts, endlessly play those awful Marilyn Manson or Christine Aguilera records and ponder how the CIA is going to do you in. But I've got a better idea about how to combat the main problems surrounding acne. The chief culprit here is malnutrition and an excess of sugars, transfats and fried foods in the diet which depress your immunity, destroy enzymes and cause all sorts of anti-social goo to ooze its way to liberty.

As usual, physicians will throw Roaccutane, tretinoin, benzoyl peroxide and antibiotics at the problem, which can variously cause suicidal tendencies, depression, burnt skin, peeled and crusty skin, a compromised immune system, or an outbreak of our old Jekyll and Hydian horror, Candida albicans, a normally beneficial yeast with dark, Napoleonic ambitions for the total control of your organism.

The key to defeating acne in puberty is to understand one basic fact: your body is going through some pivotal changes and it needs the right type of fuel to accomplish these without punishing you with the downside. Teenagers are normally quite rebellious about their diets (rumour has it), and don't often listen to what Mum says about all those tempting veggies. They prefer instead to dine out at Chez Kebab, Tennessee Fried Rat, Murder King and the Golden Starches.

Take action !
So, if you are a teen, and you have a hot date and a face full of Martian landscape, you have a choice: either continue to be rebellious with your diet and lifestyle, in which case you will be spending most of the evening whispering sweet nothings in her ear through the visor of your crash helmet, or TAKE ACTION (I love those words!) and wade in amongst the following:

· DIET: COMMENCE THE ANTI-CANDIDA DIETARY REGIMEN for a period of 28 days and then review results. If satisfactory, switch to THE FOOD FOR THOUGHT LIFESTYLE REGIMEN thereafter
· DIET: Avoid processed foods, fried foods, sugars, dairy products, hydrogenated oils (margarine, etc.) and sweets/candy
· DIET: Avoid oils and greases as far as possible at work if you are industrially-minded
· DIET: Drink 4-5 pints of clean, non-tap water a day (reverse osmosis or a still mineral water sold in glass bottles is fine)
· DETOXIFICATION: Consider reviewing your continued use of existing medications, over the counter topicals, steroidal or corticosteroidal medications
· DETOXIFICATION: Clear your pipework out with a magnesium oxide bowel cleanse
· DETOXIFICATION: Use safe personal care products (see Environmental Toxins) and wash face and body using a non-irritant formula
· RESTORE NUTRIENT BALANCE: COMMENCE THE BASIC SUPPLEMENT PROGRAM

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

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Cured of Cancer
A BBC Report

In September 2003 Felicity Corbin-Wheeler was given between five weeks and six months to live with pancreatic cancer. Now fully recovered, she attributes her cure to vitamin B17 and her Christian faith. Michelle Moffat went to meet her.

In September 2003 Felicity Corbin-Wheeler was struck down, literally overnight, with terminal pancreatic cancer and given less than six months to live. The story of her recovery, based on vitamin B17 and her Christian faith, is the stuff of miracles.

Felicity is just one of thousands people who are claiming that vitamin B17, extracted from seeds and kernels such as those found in apricots, is a God-given cure for cancer first described in the book of Genesis.

Talking Faith with Felicity

MM: Can you tell me a little about the background to your faith and how it's been part of your life and when perhaps first you felt that you had a calling to follow God?

FCW: Yes I'd always been a Christian and my father had been a Church Warden for many years in South Africa, and again in London. I have been a member of this church [Gouray] for 30 years and decided to become a Reader and train for full time ministry which I'm now doing and really feel that my life is being fulfilled in a way that it's never been fulfilled before. I think that a large part of that was doing the Alpha course through Holy Trinity Brompton, in London, which was my London Church while we were living over there.

MM: When we start this story about your health and what happened to you in recent years, you say it starts with a service that you held here at Gouray in 2003. Can you tell me a little bit about that service?

FCW: Yes, but before that I'll tell you about my daughter, Melanie, who died of cancer at the age of 20. She'd just gone to London University, and she got cancer and was dead within 16 months, despite all that orthodox medicine could do for her. Her stone is right outside here at this Church. I was fired up after that to think that there must be a better way of treating cancer and so I did two nutrition courses; one in London and one in San Diego in America, and I came to realise that there was a great deal of sense in the simple nutrition that we learn about basically in God's word because in Genesis 1:29 the Lord God says, "I give you every seed bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it, they will be yours for food."

And the more that I got into nutrition, I realised that we have to get back to very basic food and fruit and vegetables and the seeds thereof, which are so important. There has been a grape cancer cure for many years which has been based on the seeds in the grapes and of course we're now growing seedless grapes and we tend to throw away the pips in our apples and this is actually how we're throwing away the very seeds that God has told us in Genesis 1:29 that we need for our health.

MM: You had already chosen a lifestyle of being a vegetarian and not drinking any alcohol, and that very much reflects what Adam and Eve would have eaten as the Bible tells it Genesis. How did that decision come about for you?

FCW: I just felt better when I was living on fruit and vegetables and water, and there's a precedent for that in the Bible as well. Daniel had this wonderful diet when they were in exile and Daniel and his friends were supposed to eat the King's diet of rich food and wine. In fact they said that they would maintain their own diet and that after a few weeks that King could judge who was fitter, and in fact Daniel and his friends came out much fitter than the ones who were eating the rich food.

MM: So at the time you became ill, you were eating a good diet, you weren't drinking; when did you start feeling that perhaps something was wrong with your health?

FCW: Well we did a service here for Bible Society almost exactly a year ago, 6th of September 2003, and I was fine, we had a wonderful service. I just brought a film back from the Holy Land, it was a film about our Judaic heritage in the Christian Church, so I had people from every denomination here. It was just a wonderful service and we preached on the Word of God, we showed the film of the Holy Land, and it was a terrific move of God. I think that God enjoyed it but the devil didn't. The next day I was hit with tremendous pain in the solar plexus, like a killer blow. The day after that I was yellow all over. I was in terrific pain from one side of my body to the other but it was centred on the midriff. And so I went to my doctor who looked at me, examined me and said, "I think we have a major problem here." I said "Well do you think it's cancer?" and he said "Well, only a scan will tell."

The next day I had a scan, it was in fact cancer, there was a huge tumour, I have the x-rays here to show you with the tumour, so I went to London to King Edward VII Hospital, and I was in that hospital a week. At the end of all the examinations they said that there was absolutely no hope and that I had about five weeks to six months at the most to live with pancreatic cancer. And I have found that the people who had pancreatic cancer when I did, have now all died. I am the only one who has survived and who is also looking better than I've looked for a long time.
MM: Well you certainly look extremely well. Now many people who are struck down with what they are told, or is diagnosed as a terminal illness, often actually turn round and feel and anger towards God. Now your reaction has been entirely opposite, how do you come to that position of saying, "I'm not going to accept this and God is going to heal me"?
FCW: Well the first thing I did was to say the Gethsemane prayer, in which Jesus says to God that His will be done and whether I was going to die or live I knew that I was in God's hands. In fact I was never so glad to be a Christian. Because we know that through the blood of Jesus we do have atonement and that we can live forever with God, so I felt that I had his salvation whether I died and if I was going to be miraculously healed that would be of His Will as well. In Malachi 4:2 it says "For those that revere My name, the Son of Righteousness will appear with healing in His wings" and I just felt entirely at rest, people just couldn't understand why I was so calm and why I was so positive because I just felt all along that God has His hand on this. And having seen Melanie die of cancer I thought that it was another Satanic attack on the Church, as we know there are many attacks on the Church and I just felt that God was going to prove something out of this and I just completely surrendered to him and said "His will be done."
MM: Can you explain exactly how this B17 remedy that you were given, how it's received and how you take it?
FCW: Well Emmy Wilson told me that I should really go to Mexico because there is a Christian Cancer Hospital there called the Oasis of Hope where 150,000 people have been cured from cancer. And the reason it's in Mexico is that it's unorthodox medicine; you must understand that there is consensus medicine as to how people should be treated for cancer, at the moment that is surgery; radiotherapy and chemotherapy, these things do have their limitations, because if cancer is a deficiency disease, as is the theory of B17, then when we're low on B17, then we're not going to be cured of it. You might cut a cancer out, or you might irradiate it and burn it up, or you might poison it, but if the body is still deficient in B17 that cancer will return sooner or later, in another form.
MM: Now B17, as you say, consensus medicine has almost entirely rejected. There is a huge fuss about this internationally and certainly there is a large body of people on the internet who are claiming that it is the thing that we need to be looking at now. Why do you think it's been so subverted?
FCW: Well I have read two very interesting books on B17, one is called World Without Cancer by Edward Griffin and one is by Philip Day, Cancer: Why We're Still Dying to Know the Truth. And the truth seems to be that there is a vast amount of money, they say $85 billion a year made out of the cytotoxic chemicals that are put in chemotherapy. Because there's so much money being made out of it they actually fund a lot of the cancer research and the Oncology chairs of the Professors throughout the world, and it's not the fault of our doctors, because our doctors have been trained in how to try to take care of cancer in orthodox means and they do not know the natural means; they're afraid of doing it. We also live in a very litigious society and doctors are afraid of being sued if they try something natural and they haven't given the patient what they think is the benefit of all the orthodox treatments available.
MM: B17 is present in a great number of very natural foods, actually I take a B vitamin supplement and I looked on the jar this morning before I came to see you and B17 isn't present in that. It seems to have been very much put aside and it's also documented that there are people who've been saying that this is a cure for cancer and they're now actually in jail for various reasons. What's your reaction to that?
FCW: Well if you look back in history you'll see that vitamin C, which we now all take, was discredited very much, there was a man called Linus Pauling who really did the first research on Vitamin C. And we now know that without Vitamin C we can die of scurvy, in fact a million British sailors did die of scurvy back in history. It was only when they started taking limes on board with them that they discovered that the sailors who took the limes and the lime juice actually did not get the scurvy when the rest of the sailors did. It took 300 years for the truth to actually come out.
I believe that cancer is a deficiency disease. I know that for myself a few weeks ago I had a bit more pain back in my pancreas because the tumour is still there. The whole essence of B17 is that it shrinks the tumour right down and the tumour stays as a vaccination in the body against further attacks of cancer. So when I had more pain I just took more B17 and it has completely gone again. So it proves to me again and again that this is right, and I'm the only one surviving after just a year now.
MM: All through your illness and through your recovery your faith has been a huge part of this and B17 has been a huge part too. How would you say the two have combined together to bring you to where you are today?
FCW: Well I think that we have to live in the Word of God and that I know was just the most tremendous support to me. Psalm 103 was just constantly with me "I am the Lord God who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases. Your youth and your strength will be renewed like the eagles'." I just knew that God was going to do something really good.
MM: You talk a lot about 'God-incidence', you clearly believe that God's been working all the way through this, is that a phrase you've come up with yourself?
FCW: Well I think it's a phrase probably God has given me because people were talking about coincidences like me going back to Holy Trinity Brompton, and the fact that Emmy Wilson was the one pastor who prayed for me in there out of many pastors, Nicky Gumble was standing there, but Emmy was the one who happened to know about the B17 and that was a God-incidence and there have just been so many in my life through this cure that I just feel that life is full of God incidences. In life there are many coincidences, but I believe they're God-incidences.
MM: Now all through you've very much sort of turned against, had a great determination that death was not going to claim you and that you had work still to do. How do you feel your ministry is now directed, given that you've had this great reprieve?
FCW: Well we're all going to die, you know that's the thing, I've been healed for another few years and God may allow me to live until I'm great in years, as the Bible says, but the whole point of Christianity is that through Christ we do have eternal life and so death is just part of that; I'm not at all afraid of death.
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All Children to go on 'Big Brother' Computer
by Robert Winnett and David Leppard

A national database containing confidential details about every child in Britain is to be set up by the government. An identifying number will be assigned to each child so that the authorities can access their records. Details of the proposals - affecting all 13.5 m children in Britain under the age of 18 - are contained in cabinet papers leaked to The Sunday Times.

All parents will receive letters from the government informing them of the plan, which will be added to the Children's Bill in the autumn. The central electronic register will hold information on a child's school achievements, GP and hospital visits, police and social services records and home address.

It will also include information on their families, such as whether parents are divorced or separated. The database will be designed to identify problem relatives, including aunts and uncles who have a history of alcoholism or drug misuse. It will be filed under each child's "unique identifying number". The decision to create a "universal children's database" was approved by the ministerial committee on children, young people and families, chaired by Charles Clarke, the education secretary, last month.

The government believes that the move will help social services and police to identify and protect children who are at risk of abuse or neglect. However, it is likely to prove controversial. Critics claimed yesterday that it amounted to intrusive, Big Brother-style authoritarianism and would be an invasion of civil liberties.

David Davis, the shadow home secretary, expressed concern that private medical and family data could be misused and might contain inaccuracies. "This is a national ID card scheme by the back door, and as such should be open to proper scrutiny and proper checks to protect civil liberties," he said. "As the Soham murder case showed, computer databases are not infallible. To err is human, but to screw up you need a computer."

National Database on Kids
Barry Hugill, a spokesman for Liberty, the civil liberties group, said: "They are creating a national database through the back door. You start with information about all children but in 20 years' time you've got almost half the population. The government may justify it in terms of child protection but it's way beyond what even the children's charities wanted or thought necessary."

The plan follows the publication last year of a report by Lord Laming into the death of Victoria Climbie, the eight-year-old who died from neglect and abuse. Laming recommended the establishment of a national database, although the government had previously played down its interest in the idea. However, "restricted" minutes of a meeting reveal that ministers have privately agreed to the national children's database, rejecting proposals for the system to cover only those children thought to be at risk.

The minutes record: "Turning to the question of who the database should cover, the minister for children, young people and families (Margaret Hodge) said that all children should be included. This fitted with the prevention agenda and reduced the risk of stigmatisation. Information collected could also be used to support service planning and delivery." Parents would not have access to the database but will be able to apply to see details held on their children under the Data Protection Act.

Ministers at the meeting, including Hodge, Paul Boateng, Lord Filkin, Estelle Morris and Alun Michael, raised concerns about the technical challenge of setting up the database. The government has been hit by the failure of several new computer systems, including the Child Support Agency, Inland Revenue and the Criminal Records Bureau.

It has commissioned a feasibility study into the plans and held negotiations with several firms including Experian, which runs national credit-checking services. According to the leaked minutes: "To overcome the technical problems associated with a national database it might be better to start small and build up."

The aim of the system is to identify children potentially at risk before it is too late to help them. It would allow agencies to contact each other to discuss suspicions outside the constraints of data protection laws.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,2761-1190990,00.html

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
An Overview
by Phillip Day

Profile
For years, the medical establishment would not recognise chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), even though doctors were reporting cases showing up at the surgery with disconcerting regularity. Known variously down through the years as Iceland disease, post-infectious neuromyasthenia, chronic Epstein-Barr virus syndrome, etc., CFS has had a rocky ride getting itself taken seriously by all but those suffering from its debilitating symptoms. Many doctors for years wrote it off as Yuppie flu, or, in plain English, malingering.

Symptoms
Flu-like symptoms, constant sore throat, listlessness, fatigue, allergies, muscle pain, sleep disorder, stiffness, visual blurring, swollen lymph nodes, multiple chemical sensitivity, fibromyalgia, migratory joint pain, depression and emotional disturbances.

Commentary
CFS is a classic immune system challenge. Those suffering from its various symptoms have likened it to driving with the handbrake on. As mentioned, Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), a member of the herpes group, has been blamed, as have others, like Cytomegalovirus, Brucella, Human herpes virus-6, etc. CFS sufferers often discuss with others how tired and debilitated they are, and how hopeless their condition is, which is one of the first clues to what is going on.

Nine out of ten people who approach me with complaints of CFS actually do not think they will recover. This is what I refer to as 'tossing yourself under the bus'. Emotional negativity and depression are a key feature in Candida albicans and fungal infestations (gastrointestinal overgrowths), since fungi and yeasts release toxins that manipulate their host's environment to their advantage, often having a direct impact on mood and motivation.

Poor diets, chronic dehydration, and stressful, 21st century lifestyles are at the heart of CFS - fizzy sugar drinks, foods saturated in sugar and coffee abuse in particular - which depress the immune system, giving rise to a number of spin-off conditions: hypoglycaemia, hypothyroidism, joint pain, lower back pain, food allergies (sensitivities), Candida overgrowths, etc. A multi-factorial nutritional and lifestyle approach to CFS almost always brings relief from symptoms, but only if the patient is prepared to take action! Part of the problem with CFS has always been that the patient, all too often, cannot bring themselves a) to appreciate that recovery is waiting for them and b) to do what it takes consistently (there's that word again) to work their way out of the problem.

Take action!
Working your way out of CFS will take time, and the more consistent you are about taking action, the quicker your recovery will be. The regime is all about what you stop doing as well as what you take. It always helps to have professional supervision to ensure compliance with the measures below:

· DIET: For the first three months, COMMENCE THE ANTI-CANDIDA DIETARY REGIMEN and anti-fungal supplementation, taking special care to avoid the foods in the exclusion section. After three months, or as directed by a physician, change to THE FOOD FOR THOUGHT LIFESTYLE REGIMEN, a slightly more liberal regime
· RESTORE NUTRIENT BALANCE: COMMENCE THE BASIC SUPPLEMENT PROGRAM
· HYDRATION: Drink 4-5 pints of clean, non-tap water a day (reverse osmosis or a still mineral water sold in glass bottles is fine)
· DETOXIFICATION: Conduct a magnesium oxide bowel cleanse
· DETOXIFICATION: Ensure that harmful lifestyle actions, such as taking drugs, smoking, and excessive drinking are halted immediately
· TIP: Exercise regularly. Join a gym and make it fun
· TIP: Rest, rest, rest and get into a good book or do something that takes you emotionally out of the day-to-day grind
· TIP: Give up reading newspapers and watching the news
· TIP: Are you on medication which might be depressing your mood and creating side-effects?
· TIP: Avoid stressful situations. Ideally, take a holiday where you can relax and have fun while eating good, wholesome foods with people you enjoy being with
· TIP: Compel yourself to stand back from your situation and evaluate it for what it is. Have you been jamming the needles to the red and smoking the rubber to the cord? Are you exhausted, stressed out and not having a good life?
· TIP: Working your way out of CFS, in my view, is actually about working your way out of the stress and diet cycles you have compelled upon yourself over the years
· TIP: It's a beautiful life. Embrace it

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

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Dangers Of Mammography

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Australian Fluoride Deception

Phillip Day's Comment: Australians questioning water fluoridation, or wanting to protest it, can attend a series of public meetings and debates across Victoria, NSW and QLD, starting with Melbourne on 27th October 2004.

Professor Connett, world renowned fluoride and toxicity expert from New York and founder of the worldwide Fluoridation Action Network (FAN, www.fluoridealert.org) will be addressing public meetings and debating with authorities from Melbourne to Brisbane and many towns between.

An article by David McRae on the untruths used in the fluoridation promotion industry is to appear in the October edition of Australian magazine, Living Now.

Professor Connett's presentations across the eastern states will challenge dental associations and government officials to come clean on the dangers of fluoridation, to defend it in open public debate, or cease the practice immediately. Jointly organised by health advocacy and water quality groups in each state, the itinerary of Professor Connett's debates are listed below.

CTM urges all its members to support this worthy and important tour.

Professor Paul Connett - Australia,
October and November, 2004

Public Meetings and Debates on Fluoridation

General Enquiries : vicfin_info@yahoo.com.au tel: (03) 5222 1470

Dates, Venues and Contact Details

Victoria

Melbourne:

When: Wednesday, 27th October. 7:30 pm start
Where: Kaleide Theatre, RMIT
360 Swanston Street, Melbourne (enter from street)
Enquiries: Water Quality Australia Inc. 0407 046 878
Email: waterqualityaus@yahoo.com.au

Hamilton:

When: Thursday, 28th October. 7:30 start
Where: Hamilton Performing Arts Centre
55 Brown Street, Hamilton.
Enquiries: Hamilton and District Residents Association Inc.
Alan Dimond Tel: (03)5571 9357 or 0409 405 019
Email: dimo@hotkey.net.au

Warnambool:

When: Friday, 29th October. 7:30pm start
Where: Archie Grahame Centre,
118, Timor Street
Enquiries: Gillian Blair (03) 5567 6273
Email: gillianb1@hotkey.net.au

Ballarat:

When: Monday, 1st November, (Evening - time to be confirmed)
Where: To be confirmed
Enquiries: Alwyn (03) 5333 5633
Email: alwyna@ncable.net.au

Geelong:

When: Thursday, 25th November. 6:30pm (6:00pm for light meal)
Where: Geelong West Town Hall, Supper Room
Pakington Street, Geelong West
Enquiries: Carmoora Clinic (03) 5223 2616
Email: vicfin_info@yahoo.com.au

New South Wales

Deniliquin:

When: Thursday, 4th November
Where: To be confirmed
Enquiries: Julie Robinson (03) 5881 6913
Email: julie13@austarnet.com.au

Sydney:

When: Tuesday, 9th November. 6 - 8:30 pm
Where: State Parliament House (Waratah Room)
Macquarie Street, Sydney
Enquiries: Mark Diesendorf (02) 9801 2976
Email: mark@sustainabilitycentre.com.au

Port Macquarie:

When: Thursday, 11th November 12-2pm
Where: Port Macquarie Civic Centre
Enquiries: Karen Woodham (02) 6583 3644 or 04128 77390
Email: migratenow@tsn.cc

Wauchope:

When: Thursday, 11th November 6.00pm start
Where: Wauchope Community Centre
Enquiries: Karen Woodham (02) 6583 3644 or 0412 877390
Email: migratenow@tsn.cc

Kempsey:

When: Friday, 12th November 1-3pm
Where: Kempsey RSL Club
Enquiries: Don Henry (02) 6563 1287
Email: vk2dw@tsn.cc

Coffs Harbour:

When: Possible meeting, 13th or 14th November
Where: To be announced
Enquiries:
Email: vic_info@yahoo.com.au

Queensland

Brisbane:

When: Likely meetings, 15th - 19th November
Where: To be confirmed
Enquiries: Jeanie Ryan 0408 006 544
Email: jryan@ecn.net.au

Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue and The Yeast Connection: Is Yeast the Missing Link?
by Carolyn Dean, M.D., N.D. Health advisor, yeastconnection.com

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and fibromyalgia are similar conditions, with long lists of symptoms for which there are few real remedies. While they are called different disorders, CFS and fibromyalgia are close cousins, sharing many of the same symptoms. They are often spoken of in the same breath.

In fact, they may be connected. Certainly their similarities, beginning with a shared feeling of profound fatigue make it easy to find a connection between the two. Only recognized by the CDC since 1988, CFS, now called Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS), is characterized by the following factors:

Extreme fatigue Muscle and joint aches and pains Muscle weakness Chronic headaches Swollen glands Periodic fevers and chills Sore throat Numbness and tingling of the extremities Inability to cope with any stress Cognitive dysfunction Insomnia

Not until 1990 did the American College of Rheumatology establish diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia that included incapacitating fatigue, muscle and joint pain, neuralgia, sleep disorders, anxiety, depression, cognitive confusion and digestive problems.

It appears that CFIDS and fibromyalgia may also be connected to yeast overgrowth for the simple reason that a significant number of sufferers from these two syndromes find relief when they follow an anti-candida diet and other protocols to address Candida albicans yeast overgrowth, including prescription antifungal medications when necessary. The decided lack of interest by the scientific establishment in studying candidiasis alone or as it affects people with chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia leaves a distinct gap in our ability to treat these conditions.

However, Carol Jessup, M.D., who treated 1,000 CFIDS patients with anti-fungal medication, found that up to 75 percent of patients with CFS also had candidiasis. She is convinced that if candida is treated, the majority of CFIDS patients will recover.

Disputed studies

A study by Dismukes in 1990 on only 42 patients given a double-blind trial of therapy with the prescription antifungal medication, Nystatin, claimed to "prove" that chronic candidiasis did not exist because neither Nystatin or placebo benefited the patients. Dismukes also declared that since chronic candidiasis was not reproducible in an animal model, it was not verifiable.

However, the country's foremost authority on yeast infections, the late Dr. William Crook, said that Dismukes got it all wrong. Dr. Crook said Dismukes' study was, in fact, successful. It was successful in proving that Nystatin alone is not the treatment for chronic candidiasis. Dr. Crook's approach to candidiasis involved a combination of diet, probiotics and antifungal supplements and antifungal medication when necessary.

In spite of Dr. Crook's decades of dedicated work on the yeast connection, conventional medicine has not given chronic candidiasis sufferers any support. Perhaps, it's because conventional medicine only seems to investigate drug treatments and only uses one drug at a time in research. By continuing this one-sided approach, they may never catch up with Dr. Crook and the benefits he gave many thousands of people affected with candida. Patients, however, for the most part, are left struggling to find answers themselves.

The complaint of being "tired, so tired" and "sick all over" is a common link between sufferers of CFIDS, fibromyalgia and yeast overgrowth. So is the litany of multiple visits to numerous physicians without relief, and the laundry list of symptoms in common.

Even though they are so similar, CFIDS and fibromyalgia have some defining differences.

CFIDS

The CFIDS Association estimates that 800,000 Americans suffer from this condition, but no more than 16 percent have been diagnosed. In addition to muscle pain, multi-joint pain without swelling or redness, and lack of refreshing sleep, CFIDS sufferers complain of:

· Deep fatigue lasting more than 24 hours after exercise
· Impairment of short-term memory or concentration
· Sore throat
· Tender lymph nodes
· Headaches of a new type, pattern or severity
· The association adds, "CFIDS brings with it a constellation of debilitating symptoms... It is characterized by incapacitating fatigue experienced as a profound exhaustion and extremely poor stamina." Although many doctors tell patients suffering from these symptoms that "it's all in your head," it is not a psychological disorder.

Unfortunately, there are no specific diagnostic tests for CFIDS, and no cure has been found. There are a number of treatments that can be helpful, along with yeast-related treatments. Many people with CFIDS are highly sensitive to drug therapy and find much more relief taking natural nutrients and non-invasive therapies.

Some of these include:

Supplements for digestive problems and nausea that often accompany CFIDS, including probiotics, digestive enzymes and ginger

Suplements for depression and anxiety, including St. John's wort, tryptophan, and 5-HTP

Supplements for muscle and joint pain, including magnesium malate, glucosamine sulphate

Counseling, to help develop coping skills necessary to live with a debilitating chronic disease (not overdoing it is the most difficult skill to acquire)

Gentle exercise (yoga is great!)
Sleep and rest management (St. John's wort, tryptophan, and 5-HTP are also very useful for sleep)

Carolyn Dean, MD., ND., is health advisor to Woman's Health Connection at www.yeastconnection.com and is featured on the website's "Ask A Pro" page. Her latest books are The Miracle of Magnesium and Natural Prescriptions for Common Ailments.
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DR. MERCOLA'S COMMENT: The author of this article, Dr. Dean, is a key health advisor to www.yeastconnection.com, a Web site I highly recommend to women based on the pioneering work of Dr. William Crook.

Dr. Crook, one of my first mentors and a friend who passed away last year, was the author of the classic book, The Yeast Connection, and many other bestsellers that helped millions of women. He was instrumental in helping me recognize that there was a wide network of physicians who understood the importance of nutrition. He indirectly helped connect me to this network and I will be ever grateful for his guidance in this area as that was really the beginning of my journey into high-level natural health.

His great legacy is being carried on at www.yeastconnection.com, where you will find out all the latest insights on how Candida yeast causes problems in your body, and how to alleviate them.

PHILLIP DAY'S COMMENT: Predisposition to CFS or ME may derive from a weakened immune system from a young age. Lack of breast-feeding and/or multiple vaccinations can damage a child, especially up until age three during which time the immune system is being formed. After that, poor diet, a toxic environment, yeast overgrowths and chronic dehydration all have a role in immune system irregularities. In my book, The ABC's of Disease, we examine the regimen that is being used by many physicians today to help the patient conquer these most debilitating of conditions. While Dr Crook's work may be marginalised by the mainstream medical establishment because of lack of drug involvement, thankfully science is not dependent on credibility or the lack of it. Those with CFS or ME would do well to consider Dr Dean's multifactorial approach, which we highlight in the companion article Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, in this EClub edition.

Stanford Researcher Declares 'PSA Era is Over' in Predicting Prostate Cancer Risk

The PSA test, commonly used as a screening tool for detecting prostate cancer, is now all but useless for predicting prostate cancer risk, according to Stanford University School of Medicine researchers. A study of prostate tissues collected over 20 years - from the time it first became standard to remove prostates in response to high PSA levels to the present - reveals that as a screen, the test now indicates nothing more than the size of the prostate gland.

''The PSA era is over in the United States,'' said Thomas Stamey, MD, professor of urology and lead author of the study published in the October issue of the Journal of Urology. ''Our study raises a very serious question of whether a man should even use the PSA test for prostate cancer screening any more.''

The PSA test measures prostate specific antigen, a protein normally produced by the prostate gland. Stamey published the original findings in 1987 in the New England Journal of Medicine showing that increased blood PSA levels could be used to indicate prostate cancer. However, through the years, Stamey has come to believe that the PSA test is actually not a useful predictor of the amount or severity of prostate cancer. He said elevated levels of that protein actually reflect a condition called benign prostatic hyperplasia, a harmless increase in prostate size.

Stamey explained the change in correlation over the years by noting that the tumors encountered 20 years ago were generally so large they generated PSA levels high enough to provide a reasonably good measure of cancer severity. Now that screening is more commonplace in this country, many cancers are being caught earlier and are usually smaller - not generating enough PSA to be a good indicator of severity.

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men. Stamey cited a 1996 study in which researchers examined the prostates of healthy men who died from trauma, finding that 8 percent of those in their 20s already had prostate cancer. The American Cancer Society estimates that nearly a quarter of a million cases of prostate cancer will be diagnosed in the United States this year alone, and one in six men will be diagnosed with the disease at some point in their lives. Stamey said prostate cancer is a disease ''all men get if we live long enough. All you need is an excuse to biopsy the prostate and you are going to find cancer.''

However, the risk of dying from prostate cancer is very low compared with lung cancer, which is the leading cause of cancer-related death in men, he said. ''Almost every man diagnosed with lung cancer dies of lung cancer, but only 226 out of every 100,000 men over the age of 65 dies of prostate cancer, which is a rate of .003 percent,'' he said, referring to National Cancer Institute statistics.

Stamey explained the basic dilemma as such: men whose PSA levels are above 2 ng/ml frequently undergo biopsy, which will almost always find cancer, but this does not necessarily mean that prostate removal or radiation treatment is required. ''What we didn't know in the early years is that benign growth of the prostate is the most common cause of a PSA level between 1 and 10 ng/ml,'' he said.

To figure out the PSA test's usefulness in determining which cancers warrant radiation or surgery, Stamey and his team from Stanford's Department of Urology set out to document what was actually found following prostate removal, such as the volume and the grade of the cancer - two indications of the cancer's severity. They then compared those findings to aspects that could be determined prior to surgery, such as how many of the cancers could be felt by rectal examination and the patient's blood PSA level.

For the study, they used prostate tissue samples collected by professor John McNeal, MD, who has examined more than 1,300 prostates removed by different urologists at Stanford in the last 20 years. The researchers divided McNeal's data into four five-year periods between 1983 and 2004 and looked at the characteristics of each cancer. They found that over time, there was a substantial decrease in the correlation between PSA levels and the amount of prostate cancer - from 43 percent predictive ability in the first five-year group down to 2 percent in the most recent one.

However, the Stanford researchers concluded that the PSA test is quite accurate at indicating the size of the prostate gland, meaning that it is a direct measure of benign prostatic hyperplasia. And Stamey pointed out that it is still very useful for monitoring patients following prostate removal as an indicator of residual prostate cancer that has spread to other parts of the body.

''Our job now is to stop removing every man's prostate who has prostate cancer,'' said Stamey. We originally thought we were doing the right thing, but we are now figuring out how we went wrong. Some men need prostate treatment but certainly not all of them.''

If the PSA test is no longer useful, the question remains as to the best course for detecting prostate cancer. Stamey recommends a yearly digital rectal exam for all men over 50. ''If a cancer is felt in the prostate during a rectal examination, it is always a significant cancer and certainly needs treatment,'' he said.

Unfortunately, he added, even large cancers often cannot be felt during rectal examination. His group is currently working on finding a blood marker that could indicate more aggressive forms of the cancer that can invade the body.

Other researchers who contributed to this work are Mitchell Caldwell, Rosalie Nolley, Marci Hemenez and Joshua Downs. The study was funded by donations to Stamey's Prostate Cancer Research Fund at Stanford.
Per: The Medical Renaissance Group, Australia
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Police Radio System Led to Officer's
Fatal Cancer, Family Fears
by Nick Britten and Nic Flemming

The family of a police officer who died of cancer have questioned whether the force's controversial new radio system caused the disease.

PC Neil Dring, 38, died 10 months after being diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus. His family said he was a keen sportsman who had always enjoyed excellent health.

However, he began complaining of severe headaches shortly after the Government's £2.9 billion Tetra system was introduced.

PC Dring, who left a wife and two young children, complained to his superiors that the handset, which emits pulsing radio frequencies, was making him ill.

He told his family that he was "convinced" it caused his cancer.

A second officer, who is 40, and works for the same force, has also been diagnosed with the same cancer and is being treated.

PC Dring's brother, Ian, said: "Neil was convinced it was the radio that was to blame for the cancer. He had raised the issue with a sergeant and a superintendent and we feel it is our duty to follow this through for his sake. No one seems to be sure how safe this Tetra system is. It beggars belief that the system was not tested thoroughly before it was rolled out. Neil was only 38, didn't smoke and was a keen triathlete. The thing that really hit me was that another officer in the same force has contracted the same cancer in the same place, just beneath where he wore his handset."

The Home Office is equipping the 53 forces in England, Scotland and Wales with the Tetra system - Terrestrial Trunked Radio - at a cost of £2.9 billion by the end of 2005. About 2,500 of the required transmitters have been erected and 65,000 officers are using the system in 39 forces.

But the system has provoked strong protests, with claims that the radio signals cause headaches, sickness, disturbed sleep and skin rashes.

The Home Office last year announced a £5 million health study including a detailed study of 150 officers and a 15- year monitoring programme involving 100,000 users.

Sir William Stewart, the former chief scientific advisor to the Government, said in a report on mobile phone health concerns that frequencies around 16Hz - close to Tetra's 17.6Hz should be avoided because previous research suggested they could cause potentially harmful changes in cell biology. However, Professor Colin Blakemore, of Oxford University, has dismissed the health concerns around Tetra.

And a Report by the National Radiological Protection Board concluded: "Although areas of uncertainty remain about the biological effects of low level RF radiation…..current evidence suggests it is unlikely that the special features of the signals from Tetra mobile terminals and repeaters pose a hazard to health."

Mr Dring, whose brother served with the Leicestershire force as a police motorcyclist, is due to meet members of the force and the police federation next week.

"Neil had no preconditions for this sort of cancer and was outside the age group associated with it," he said. For the whole of his shift his handset was strapped to his chest, where the tumour was found. I have a major concern that the system isn't safe. We have spoken to other officers and they are aware of it and are terrified of it."

Stan Sexton, the health and safety advisor for Leicestershire police, said he was "99 per cent certain" that PC Dring's death had nothing to do with Tetra.

He said that the other officer who had contracted cancer was of senior rank and rarely used Tetra.

Steve Edwards, the chairman of Lancashire Police Federation, said: "There is a lot of concern from officers about the system and we need to find out one way or the other whether it presents a risk to health."

A spokesman for O2 airwave, which operates Tetra, said: "We would like to express our sympathy and regret to Pc Dring's family but we would reinforce that the airwave is there as a public safety measure. All the handsets comply with the guidelines and there's no evidence to suggest there are any health concerns."
Daily Telegraph 20th July, 2004

PHILLIP DAY'S COMMENT: There are most definitely problems with TETRA, as with other mobile stations. If this concerns you, get the facts. www.mastsanity.org has a searchable site with the side of this issue you are not being told about. There is also an advice line.

The Government's Delay Over
Vaccines Has Got Me Needled
by Melanie McDonagh

Granted, there's something off-putting about the paranoia that characterises contemporary parenthood.

There's a lot of it around - from the neuroses about eating unpasteurised Brie, drinking gin and riding bicycles which haunt the pregnant woman to the angst about emotional stunting of babies in nurseries which worries the working mother. And the fashions in parental concerns vary from decade to decade. Having been indoctrinated to worry about cot death for the past few years, mothers now get worked up every time their infants turn tummy-down for a nap, and about the tog rating on their sleeping bag, in case they overheat. It can get you down, this sort of thing.

But even those of us who are cavalier to the point of callousness about many of the neuroses that modern parents cultivate are not immune from health scares. All things being equal, for instance, I would prefer that my baby, who is 11 months old, should escape autism, insofar as there is anything I can do to prevent it. And so, harangued by my mother, who reads all the wrong newspapers, I have promised not to have the child given the MMR vaccine but to go for separate jabs. Now, to my very considerable chagrin, I find that I've been told about the latest scare eight months too late.

The Government has announced that it is to follow the example of countries like Japan and the US and ditch mercury, or thiomersal, as a preservative in its DTwP vaccine, which protects children against diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, polio and Hib.

I had, admittedly, heard something about American research into possible connections between mercury in vaccines and autism, and had idly wondered why anyone could imagine that using the substance that once made people in the millinery business go mad as hatters was a good idea in a vaccine.

But it never dawned on me, as I waved the baby off at the age of three months to have his first jab (I was too much of a coward to see him bawl), that the poor mite was getting mercury in his cocktail of vaccines. No one happened to mention it.

Now the Government is to remove thiomersal from the injection as a precautionary measure. That's lovely, that is. What about those whose infants have had a dose of mercury, all unknowing? The research from the US about the possible problems from mercury is over five years old.

It was in 1999 that the US Public Health Service warned that thiomersal should be reduced or eliminated in all vaccines just to be on the safe side. Two years later, the European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products said vaccines containing mercury should not be used for infants. Now, years late, the Government says that there's absolutely no need to panic, but that thiomersal is to be phased out from October in all vaccines.

Then there's the addition of another vaccine, against polio, to the immunisation cocktail. That doesn't exercise me so much; although, when I heard the news about a five-in-one jab, I thought, wearily, here goes, another set of injections to have spaced out over months. It was then that I got out the little red book documenting the baby's injections to find that I needn't bother. He'd had his mercury-laden four-in-one jab already; polio comes later.

The stampede of senior NHS executives to assure us that the existing vaccines are completely safe does nothing to make you feel reassured. My own grounds for scepticism are simple. It is easier and more cost-effective to administer three-in-one, or five-in-one, jabs than to spend extra time and money employing nurses to administer individual injections.

And then you have the trouble that some parents, idle beasts, can't be fagged to turn up so many times for their infants' injections. The alternative - to offer individual jabs just for the paranoid parents, leaving everyone else to opt for the approved multiple vaccine, or else to charge the fusspots for the extra cost involved to the NHS in injecting their children repeatedly - has found no favour with the Department of Health.

The other reason for feeling sceptical is the Government's treatment of Andrew Wakefield, the gastroenterologist who first suggested that there might, possibly, be a connection between the measles vaccine in MMR and autistic enterocolitis.

He wasn't dogmatic about it initially; he just raised the possibility. The Government and the National Health Service were, however, merciless in their response. He was hounded out of his position, his research work was rubbished and he was effectively barred from any prospect of promotion within the NHS.

He's still sticking to his guns, though, even though the colleague with whom he first raised his concerns has retracted his initial doubts, in what looked like the spirit in which heretics investigated by the Inquisition recanted their errors. It doesn't, I'm afraid, inspire complete confidence in the impartiality of the whole process.

Of course, we should all be on our bended knees, thanking God that vaccinations exist. From the outset of Jenner's research into vaccination, mass medication of this kind was controversial. But to take exception to the way in which it is administered in Britain isn't to deny that it's a blessing.

When the latest vaccination scare broke a few days ago, we had the news, presented in the most positive possible light, that Bill Gates and the British Government would be co-operating to fund a mass vaccination programme in Africa for those unfortunate children who still die of diseases against which they could be immunised. You won't, I fancy, find their parents questioning the medics injecting their babies against measles, mumps and rubella about whether single jabs would be preferable.

This whole business has, however, hardened my resolve to avoid the MMR vaccine. But, for those anxious contemporaries who share my concerns, I ought in all honesty to bring my husband into this. He's a medic. And he thinks that the more diseases the baby is inoculated against, the better, no matter which way it's done. And he knows more than me.
The Daily Telegraph, 10th August 2004

PHILLIP DAY'S COMMENT: Melanie's article, from an anxious mother who is also a journalist, is typical of the thought-processes at work in many households across the world with regard to vaccinations. Noam Chomsky, illustrious US foreign policy and media critic, once remarked that the swiftest way to keep people passive and obedient is strictly to limit the range of a debate. And so we see the endless wrangling: 'Do I give my child the three-in-one, four-in-one, or now five-in-one, or do I have my child given the vaccinations individually?' Of course, at no time is a citizen dared to entertain the blasphemous notion that YOU DON'T NEED VACCINATIONS AT ALL, that you can build a child's immune system extremely efficiently as God intended, by breast-feeding, and then weaning onto whole, fresh foods, plenty of water, plenty of exercise and a safe and loving environment.

Steve Ransom's excellent new book, Wake up to Health in the 21st Century, goes into the vaccine controversy in detail. I heartily recommend this work to anyone who has reached the end of their tether with regard to the incompetence and lying of government and the medical industry in this area.

Further Resources
Need to know more about the vaccine controversy?
Wake up to Health in the 21st Century by Steven Ransom
Health Wars by Phillip Day

The Toxic Chemicals in Your Home
They Aren't Telling You About

Several everyday consumer products are made with toxic chemicals that can't be found anywhere on the package label.

Ina a study, 40 household products such as hair coloring, lipstick and paints were tested for toxic chemicals. Out of these 40 products, evidence of the following chemicals was discovered in 34 of the products: glycols, organic solvents and phthalates. These chemicals did not appear on the label of the products.

Although the study didn't test at what level these chemicals were harmful to people, they did find that these chemicals could contribute to impacting the nervous system, reproductive system and cause other health issues. For this reason, researchers expressed the need to look further into chemical affects and people's level of exposure to them.

Researchers also stated the most common toxic chemical that people would most likely inhale come from household products. These chemicals included chlorine, toluene, xylene, methyl, ethyl ketone and n-hexane.

Based on the findings from these studies, environmental groups recommended stricter labeling requirements.

A chemical spokesperson stated that these claims weren't supported by scientific evidence and served merely as scare tactics as a way to get people to not buy the products they depend on for everyday use. Another spokesperson for the cosmetic industry claimed that the amount of toxic chemicals used in cosmetics and other household products was very low and regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.
Excite News 14th July 2004

PHILLIP DAY'S COMMENT: The simple truth is, the chemical industry is largely self-regulating, and neither the Food and Drug Administration nor its counterparts in other countries have the resources to check the thousands of chemicals which pour onto the market every year. A recent article illustrated that the European Union has not conducted long-term toxicological tests on over 30,000 chemicals used routinely throughout Europe!

Systemic poisoning by chemicals in personal care and household products is notoriously difficult to prove, since their accumulation is gradual and often interpreted as other conditions. Shampoos, toothpastes, anti-perspirants, skin cream, shaving foam, make-up… my advice is to choose safe alternatives to supermarket versions. There are real problems associated with the mainstream items (www.preventcancer.com). In my books, I list out the main chemical trouble-makers and the problems associated with them.

Further Resources
Need to know more about household toxins?
Health Wars by Phillip Day

The Flu Season Campaign Begins
by Dr Sherri Tenpenny

As predictable as the return of yellow school buses and Monday Night Football, the arrival of fall also brings the first fearful chatter about the approaching flu season. But this year there is a twist: the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has devised a portentous new blueprint to ensure the economic success of this season's flu vaccine.

Concerned over data documenting that almost 65% of people surveyed in 2003 did not receive the flu shot-including nearly 47% with chronic illnesses and 78% of children aged 6-23 months-a new strategy has been devised. The plan is fully disclosed in a 51 slide communiqué called "Planning for the 2004-05 Influenza Vaccination Season: A Communication Situation Analysis," prepared by Glen Nowak, Ph.D., the Associate Director for Communications at the National Immunization Program.

The most important part of the program, "The Seven-Step Recipe for Generating Interest in, and Demand for, Flu (or any other) Vaccination,"(1) is designed to methodically manipulate the general public. Language within the presentation reveals the intent of the government and their drug company "partners" to use major news media (newswires, TV) to send scheduled, fear-based messages in an attempt to convince the unsuspecting public that not only is the flu shot necessary, but to motivate them to demand it. This will amount to millions of dollars of free adverting for flu vaccine manufacturers.

Here is a synopsis of the CDC's plan:

Step 1: Start discussing the flu at the beginning of the "immunization season."
Posters, fliers and media campaign materials are generally mailed to public health departments and healthcare provider offices in mid-August, "planting the seeds" in the minds of patients so that they request the flu vaccine when it arrives.

Step 2: The media will begin to make pronouncements that the "new" influenza strains anticipated this year "will be associated with severe illness and serious outcomes."

Right on cue, the government announced on August 25, that it is "preparing for world's next big flu outbreak." A report released to the Associated Press suggests that a bad flu season could kill up to 207,000 Americans. To fuel the hysteria, the CDC and the Department of Human Services announced that they are jointly issuing a "The Pandemic Influenza Response and Preparedness Plan" which will stress "ways to speed up vaccine production, limit the spread of a super-flu, and care for the ill." (2)

Step 3: The build up will continue throughout the early fall, as local and national "medical experts and public health authorities publicly (e.g., via media) state concern and alarm (by predicting dire outcomes)-and urge influenza vaccination." (3)

Here's one example:

"We know we're going to have a pandemic because, historically, we're overdue for one," said Neil Pascoe, epidemiologist in the infectious disease division of the Texas Department of Health. "When it happens, it's going to be huge. It will be global, and everyone is going to be affected…it could be terribly fatal. Imagine 4 million Texans [becoming] infected, and 20 percent of them die." (4) Be prepared for many similar statements in major newspapers and on national TV stations as the weeks progress.

Step 4: Reports from medical experts will be used to "frame the flu season in terms [that will] motivate behavior." Language to be used includes, "very severe," "more severe than last or past years," "deadly")." (5)

Last year, there were 1026 messages sent via the media between September 21-28. Phrases used included, "this could be the worst flu season ever," "the flu kills 36,000 people per year" and "the flu shot is the best way to prevent the flu." (6) Even though less than 175 people actually died from influenza in 2003, anticipate exponentially more messages regarding the "deadly flu" will be pushed through the news media this year.

Steps 5: Continue to release reports from health officials through the media that influenza is causing severe illness and/or affecting lots of people "helping to foster the perception that many people are susceptible to a bad case of influenza."

Step 6: Give visible and tangible examples of the seriousness of influenza by showing pictures of ill children and affected families who are willing to come forward with their stories. "Show pictures of people being vaccinated, the first to motivate, the latter to reinforce."

Step 7: List references to, and have discussions regarding, the influenza pandemic. "Make continued reference to the importance of vaccination."

The language used to describe Steps 5, 6, and 7 was taken directly from Nowak's presentation.(7) This should leave little doubt that the government intends to use the media to create hysteria that will increase the demand for a pharmaceutical product.

Vaccine manufacturers often cry the blues about revenues lost by producing vaccines. However, last year, Chiron, one of the two largest vaccine manufacturers, made 38 million flu shots, accounting for nearly $230 million in revenue. And even though sales of FluMist, the intranasal flu vaccine, reportedly 'failed miserably,' the company stillmarked $33 million in revenues from sales of the product.(8) Not exactly the stellar returns MedImmune had hoped for, but clearly revenues were made.

Health officials are expecting that, through the publicity generated by last year's flu hype, coupled with a carefully planned and implemented new strategy, record numbers will seek vaccination this year.

Further Resources
Need to know more about the vaccine controversy?
Wake up to Health in the 21st Century by Steven Ransom
Health Wars by Phillip Day

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Notes:
[1] Nowak, Glen, Planning For The 2004-05 Influenza Vaccination Season. A Communication Analysis
[2] "Government Preparing For World's Next Big Flu Outbreak", August 25, 2004
[3] Nowak, slide 28
[4] "County To Offer Flu Vaccinations Early," Sherry Jacobson, The Dallas Morning News, August 26, 2004
[5 Nowak, slide 28.
[6] Nowak slide 16.
[7] Nowak slide 29.
[8] "Record Number of Flu Vaccines To Be Made", Paul Alias, AP Biotech writer, San Francisco. July 23, 2004
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