Party 'Must be Committed to Leave EU Constitution'
by Andrew Sparrow

Iain Duncan Smith should commit himself to withdrawing Britain from the European Union's proposed new constitution, leading Tories said yesterday.

The Conservative Party has called for a referendum on the constitution, which is under negotiation between member states.

But Lord Lamont, the former chancellor, and David Heathcote-Amory, a former minister, said that if Britain adopted the constitution before the party got into power, a future Conservative government should withdraw.

"We have to concentrate our efforts on making sure we get a referendum," Lord Lamont told a fringe meeting organised by the Bruges Group. But if that failed, Mr Duncan Smith should make it clear that the constitution would be part of a general "re-negotiation" of Britain's position within the EU once the Tories were in government, Lord Lamont said.

In his speech, Lord Lamont compared the ceremony held by the former French President, Valery Giscard D'Estang to mark the unveiling of the proposed constitution with an event organised by Nazi Germany.

"When the conclusions for that convention were unveiled, it was an enormous fanfare, the champagne flowed, there had been nothing like it since the field of the cloth of gold," he said. "President Giscard stood ram-rod to attention while in a ceremony reminiscent of the German Democratic Republic or the Third Reich, the 'Ode to Joy' was played. President Giscard was even compared to Socrates."

Mr Heathcote-Amory, the Tory representative on the convention that drew up the draft constitution, said: "If we accept this, we will be submitting ourselves formally and irreversibly to a superior political authority, something we have never done."

Robert Oulds, director of the Bruges Group, called on Mr Duncan Smith to sever all contact between Tory MEPs and the People's European Party, the pro-Brussels conservative group in the European Parliament to which the Tories are presently linked.

"Then we can start the process of building our opposition to the federalists and perhaps even change the course of Europe," he said.
The Daily Telegraph, 7th October 2003

PHILLIP DAY'S COMMENT: After Sweden and Denmark's refusal to join the European single currency by popular mandate, Tony Blair has lost all impetus in trying to take Britain into the euro this side of a general election. The proposed EU constitution he is trying to foist onto the British public without their approbation however is an entirely different, and much more serious matter.

To his credit, 'Socrates' D'Estaing has made it clear that if Britain does not want to be part of the new European political state, she can withdraw, sign a free trade agreement, and trade independently as the EU's biggest customer. Giscard D'Estaing naturally knows that the new United States of Europe is on a hide into nowhere if the population of Europe is against the idea of political union (which many are), which is why he supports referenda on the issue in the nations involved.

Of all the premiers in Europe, Tony Blair remains conspicuously alone in denying his country a referendum on the constitution. He wants to be president of Europe, but knows his country won't vote to lose its independence to a corrupt, supranational organisation. Thus Britain is to be compelled into yielding her sovereignty to a foreign power over which the British people have little control. Further, Prime Minister Blair insists on giving aid and comfort to our previous enemies by encouraging the handing over of our army, navy, air force and sovereign powers to them. He has no popular mandate, or indeed the political right, to do this. Under the 1848 Treason Felonies Act, Tony Blair and other key members of his cabinet should be charged with treason.

For those wishing to learn what can be done to prevent Britain sliding into a future European financial insolvency and resultant anarchy (Germany herself is perilously close to economic meltdown at the present time because of the euro), may I recommend the two titles below, which explain the situation and the courses of action that may be taken.

This has nothing to do with party politics. This has everything to do with the kind of world you and your family will inhabit tomorrow.

Further resources
Ten Minutes to Midnight by Phillip Day
Vigilance by Ashley Mote

Available through www.credence.org

Pig Ignorant

Zac Goldsmith, the editor of The Ecologist and son of the late Sir James Goldsmith, keeps a herd of pigs on his farm in Devon. For some years, whenever he has wanted to convert one into pork chops for his family table, he has called in a professional slaughterman, one of thousands put out of work when John Selwyn Gummer's bizarre interpretation of an EC meat directive made it too expensive for most of Britain's rural abattoirs to stay in business.

Recently, however, the farm was visited by an official of the State Veterinary Service who said that, on the advice of Sir John Kreb's Food Standards Agency, this was no longer permitted. According to the FSA, the slaughterman was supplying the meat "for sale", which was against European rules. The only person who could be permitted to kill was the farmer himself.

Apart from the obvious point that the slaughterman is not supplying the meat, but only his services, it seems that, according to the FSA's reading of EC hygiene rules, it is perfectly all right for an inexperienced, untrained farmer to kill animals for human consumption, but for a qualified expert to do the job is a criminal offence. Mr Goldsmith looks forward to seeing how Sir John Krebs will defend this.
Sunday Telegraph, 5th October, 2003

EU Bans Straw Pond Cleaner

Barley straw, a centuries old remedy for clearing murky pond water, is to be effectively banned under a European Union directive - because no one knows how it works!

Producers say that the only way to escape the ban on barley "patches", sold in most garden centres, is to explain why they work and demonstrate that no harm is caused. However, the expense of doing so would force them out of business.

The EU law on biocidal products, about to come into force, is part of the regulation of pesticides. However, it does not distinguish between manufactured and natural products.

The Health and Safety Executive said it was taking up the issue with the EU.
The Daily Telegraph, 28th September 2003

Pills Issued as Nuclear Sub Arrives
by Stewart Payne

Schools near a port where a nuclear submarine has docked, have been issued with protective medication as a precautionary measure against a radiation leak.

More than 160,000 potassium iodate tablets have been distributed in and around Portsmouth following the arrival of the 18-year-old Trafalgar class submarine, Torbay, for exercises.

The tablets, to be taken only in an emergency, prevent the onset of thyroid cancer.

The pills have been issued for the first time to 31 schools and the city's university and art college by Hampshire County Council, in accordance with new legislation.

Martyn Powell, the emergency planning officer for the council, said: "The worst scenario is for gamma radiation to leak into the atmosphere from the vessel. This does not have a fatal effect but can cause cancer of the thyroid gland about 30 years down the line. Obviously the pills will only be handed out in the very unlikely event of a leak."

Marilyn Mullen, Head Teacher of Alverstoke Junior School in Gosport, said: "I have been told I will be contacted and given instructions on what to do in an emergency. These precautions have been handled very efficiently and we have no concerns at all."
The Daily Telegraph, 9th October, 2003

The Thyroid and Fluoride
by Professor Paul Connett

Dear CTM subscribers,

This is the sixth in a series of 14 bulletins in which I will be focusing on public health warnings on fluoridation which are being ignored by public health officials as well as many non-governmental organizations otherwise engaged in protecting the public health. I urge you to forward this, and the other public health warnings to your local, provincial or federal health officials and ask them for their response. Copy your letter to your state and federal representatives and get them engaged in your discussions, especially if you sense you are getting the run around from the health officials.

Public Health Warning on Fluoridation, 6: The thyroid gland and fluoride.

The literature dealing with the interaction between fluoride and the thyroid gland has a very long history, stretching back to a paper written in 1854 by Maumene who linked goiter in dogs with exposure to fluoride. The following URL links to a summary of that history http://64.177.90.157/pfpc/html/thyroid_history.html

I do not pretend to know enough about either this history or the detailed functioning of the thyroid gland to offer much insight into this issue. However, it is an extremely important area and it warrants far more attention from governments promoting fluoridation than it currently receives, which is practically zero! Millions of Americans are impacted by thyroid dysfunction, and if only a small fraction of these have their condition caused by, or worsened by, fluoride it is a very serious matter indeed.

There are four important lines of evidence that fluoride interferes with the thyroid gland.

1) The condition known as "goiter" which involves a gross swelling of the thyroid gland, which in turn produces very marked swellings in the neck, is known to be caused by iodine deficiency. However, it has also been found to occur in areas where there are adequate supplies of iodine, but where there's an excess fluoride in the water.

2) Starting in the 1930s and continuing through to the late 1950's sodium fluoride was used to lower the activity of the thyroid gland for those suffering from hyperthyroidism (i.e. over active thyroid gland). The obvious question then becomes, if fluoride lowers the activity of an overactive thyroid gland what does it do to a normal or underactive thyroid gland?

3) It has been known for a long time that one of the consequences of iodine deficiency in mothers is an increased risk of mental retardation in their children. With the advent of iodized salt, this is a less frequent occurrence in industrialized countries. However, studies from China indicate that even a moderate amount of fluoride exposure can exacerbate the effects of low iodide's impacts on the developing brain.

4) It has been known for a long time that fluoride mimics the action of the thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH). Because TSH sends its message across the cell membrane of the thyroid gland via G-proteins, a candidate mechanism for fluoride's action would be fluoride's well established ability (See reviews by Strunecka & Patocka, 1999; and Li, 2003), in the presence of a trace amount of aluminium, to switch on G-proteins.

Taking these lines of evidence one at a time.

1) Endemic Goiter (also spelled goitre) and fluoride.

In a 90 page report entitled "Endemic Goitre in the Union of South Africa and some Neighbouring Territories", prepared for the Department of Nutrition for the South African government, Dr. Douw Steyn and colleagues concluded that there were two separate causes for endemic goiter. In their summary, they state, "In the Union of South Africa endemic goitre is caused by: (1) a primary iodine deficiency in the drinking water and soil, and most probably in the food; and (2) excessive quantities of fluorine in subterranean drinking-water in spite of super sufficiency of iodine in the waters." (See http://www.slweb.org/south-africa.goitre.html )

The areas with endemic goiter caused by excess fluoride were located in the Northwest part of South Africa. In 1999, Jooste et al repeated Steyn's findings when they reported endemic goiter in the absence of iodine deficiency in schoolchildren of the Northern Cape Province. A similar relationship between excess fluoride exposure and goiter has been reported in England (Wilson 1941), in the Punjab region of India (Wilson 1941), in Nepal (Day and Powell-Jackson, 1972) and in Gujarat, India (Desai 1993). Other studies, however, have failed to find this relationship (see Burgi 1984).

2) Treating hyperthyroidism with sodium fluoride tablets.

What is striking about the doses of fluoride used to treat hyperthyroidism is how small they were. Galletti and Joyet (1958) found that a daily dose of just 2.3-4.5 mg of fluoride per day was enough to reduce the basal metabolism rate (BMR) of hyperthyroid patients and alleviate their condition (see paper at http://www.fluoridealert.org/galletti.htm ). This dose (2.3-4.5 mg/day) will be exceeded by many people living in a fluoridated area. The US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS,1991) estimates that an adult in a fluoridated community receives between 1.6 and 6.6 mg of fluoride per day from all sources combined.

In a World Health Organization review (Fluoride and Health, WHO, 1970), Semole cites evidence from Korrodi et al (1956) that, in normal human subjects, fluorides have no effect on the thyroid. He then asks, "Why does sodium fluoride exert a mild antithyroidal effect in hyperthyroidic patients if it is inactive in normal persons? Nobody knows."

However, the claim that fluoride has no effect on normal thyroid function may have been premature. According to a study conducted by Bachinskii (1985), prolonged consumption of water with 2.3 ppm fluoride produced changes in thyroid function, not only in people with hyperthyroidism but in people with normal thyroid function as well. Bachinskii writes in the abstract of his paper:

"Altogether 123 persons were examined: 47 healthy persons, 43 patients with thyroid hyperfunction and 33 with thyroid hypofunction. It was established that prolonged consumption of drinking water with a raised fluorine content (122 +/- 5 mumol/l with the normal value of 52 +/- 5 mumol/l) by healthy persons caused tension of function of the pituitary-thyroid system that was expressed in TSH elevated production, a decrease in the T3 concentration and more intense absorption of radioactive iodine by the thyroid as compared to healthy persons who consumed drinking water with the normal fluorine concentration. The results led to a conclusion that excess of fluorine in drinking water was a risk factor of more rapid development of thyroid pathology."

Unfortunately, Bachinskii's full study was published in Russian, and we do not have a translation. However, it would be an easy matter for any government to get a translation of this work and to pursue the details of this study and repeat it if there is any doubt in the matter.

3. Lowering of IQ in China.

It is well established that the pituitary/thyroid system is important in the early mental development of children thus if fluoride interfered with the thyroid it could, among other things, result in lowered IQ in children. In this respect, the results of a UNICEF sponsored study of mental retardation, IQ and thyroid hormone status in children in areas endemically low in iodide are particularly revealing. Lin Fa-Fu et al. (1991) found in one region of China that even a modest amount of fluoride in the water (i.e. 0.91 ppm versus 0.34 ppm) led to an even greater reduction in IQ and the frequency of mental retardation, than simply low iodide by itself. (See paper at http://www.fluoridealert.org/idd.htm )

Yang et al (1994) further investigated the effect of iodide and fluoride on IQ and hormonal status in areas of high iodide and high fluoride. From their study the authors concluded that their results "indicate that high iodine and high fluorine exert severe damage to human body." Compared to controls, children had higher dental fluorosis rates; markedly lower iodine-131 uptake; higher serum TSH levels, and slightly lower average IQ, with 16.7% placed in a category labelled "low intelligent." We only have the abstract in English, the rest of the paper is in Chinese.

4. TSH, fluoride and G-proteins.

Just how fluoride impacts the thyroid gland is not clear. We know that, in the presence of a trace amount of aluminium, fluoride switches on G-proteins, thus sending messages normally delivered by water soluble hormones. TSH is one of the water soluble hormones which is mimicked by aluminium fluoride. But the puzzling thing about this is that one would expect that this would lead to an activation of the thyroid gland not deactivation (as in the case of someone with hypothyroidism).

A clue to this puzzle may have come in 1994 in a paper by Tezelmann et al. These researchers using Chinese hamster ovary cells, report that fluoride increases intracellular cAMP concentration (the secondary messenger produced as a result of switching on G-proteins), but the end result was desensitisation of the receptor for the thyroid stimulating hormone (TSHr). In other words, the fluoride begins by stimulating the cell but the end result was that it led the cell to become less responsive to the normal stimulation by TSH. The authors state that, "Desensitisation or decreased response to the same (homologous) or other stimuli (heterologous) is a well known process. Homologous desensitisation to TSH has been demonstrated in normal thyroid tissue."

I will be returning to the activation of G-proteins in a later health warning as well as its ability to lower IQ in another.

Meanwhile, various recent government sponsored reviews have given this topic very short shrift. The York Review (McDonagh et al., 2000) looked at only two of the goiter studies (Jooste, 1999 and Gedalia, 1963). They didn't use a weight of evidence approach, bringing in the clinical and biochemical studies above. The Irish Fluoridation Forum (2002) didn't do any review of primary studies on health except dental fluorosis and four bone fracture studies. The CDC (1999) reviewed no health studies beyond citing the NRC (1993) review and the NRC(1993) review didn't consider impacts on the thyroid system, nor did the First draft of the WHO review (Environmental Health Criteria 227: Fluorides, 2002).

I welcome any corrections or comments, especially if readers know of any government review since WHO (1970) that has discussed fluoride's impact on the thyroid gland.

Subject: GM and Toxins in Our Food Chain

To: Prime Minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark
cc: Prime Minister of Britain, Tony Blair, London, England (via mail)
Dr Jonn Matsen, Canada (via fax)
Dr Samuel Epstein, USA
Mr Phillip Day, Credence Publications, Kent, England
Mr Peter Pavlovich, Stonemeal New Zealand, Auckland

Forward to: Various Newspapers

Dear Prime Minister Helen Clark

I am a member of the public and a consumer, writing to express my very deep, deep concern regarding GM and other toxins in our food chain. Being a Commonwealth Citizen and residing in England, on occasions I also draw this matter to the attention of the Prime Minister of Britain.

However, the world is my home and every single person is important and needs to be aware of how this issue affects them and all the other animals and plants that are in co-habitation with us.

The public at large is not aware of the quantity of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, growth inhibitors for storage purposes and growth promoters for ripening, etc. that is sprayed onto our so-called healthy fruit and vegetables before they get to our mouths. We are also misguided into believing that a lot of highly processed foods are healthy for us. In short we are being poisoned and nutritionally starved at the same time.

In Australia, Dr Donahoe who talked about 'farm chemicals in our food' on the Today Tonight - Channel 7 News, was quite explicit about their harmful effects on humans.

Refer back to an article in the NZ Herald on 22 August 2003, entitled 'Test for low-spray onions brings 1500 submissions'. Some of the statements in this article follow:

· "Farmers use a battery of up to 15 different herbicides to control the weeds. Many are more toxic and longer lasting than glyphosate."
· "... the country could save about $2.25 million a year because growers would need to spray only about five litres of glyphosate a hectare, compared with the 16 litres of chemicals now sprayed a hectare every season."
· "...Twenty two million kilograms [a year] of chemical ingredients, herbicides and pesticides would be saved by these crops."
· "Greenpeace Spokesman Steve Abel said it was laughable to claim the herbicide resistant onion would reduce chemical use. The use of herbicide-resistant soybeans overseas had led to a growth in chemical use."
· "You get weed resistance and eventually the herbicide becomes useless so you have to go to the use of more toxic herbicides." - NZPA.

There was also a section next to this article headed "GM growth" as follows:

Quote "5000 ha of GM crops were grown throughout the world in 1996. This ballooned to 45 million hectares of herbicide-resistant crops last year. Source: Crop & Food Research" Unquote

Wow !! That is one big announcement of the quantity of poison being sprayed. Along with our food being poisoned, so is our land and down through into our water-ways. Ask Councils, they would be able to give you a better idea of problems associated with storm water drains, farm trenches, etc. leaching pollutants through into our environment.

Refer to the famous Canadian Doctor, Jonn Matsen, whose medical breakthroughs help prevent and cure formerly incurable diseases. In his book entitled 'Mysterious Causes & Cures of Illness - How to overcome every disease from constipation to cancer without any drugs or surgery' he explains in layman's terms the workings of the body and opens your eyes as to why we have such overloaded hospital waiting lists.

I quote excerpts from his book: "poor diet and faulty digestion can result in incomplete absorption of nutrients and a build-up of toxins in the blood, which can overload the liver and circulate throughout the body causing irritation. If the immune system gets overloaded, more serious problems can result."

"Disease begins with faulty digestion long before the first aches and pains, long before there are any symptoms." (Ref: Dr Jonn Matsen, 'Mysterious Causes & Cures of Illness')

Of course you would have to read his book to fully understand the reasons why we develop faulty digestive systems in the first place.

Dr Matsen quotes in his book the two rather interesting excerpts as follows:

1st Thomas Sydenham, the famous seventeenth century English physician, summed up disease with this statement: "Disease is nothing else but an attempt on the part of the body to rid itself of morbific matter."

2nd In his book 'The Wheel of Health' Dr. G.T. Wrench wrote: "Diseases only attack those whose outer circumstances, particularly food, are faulty...The prevention and banishment of disease are primarily matters of food; secondarily, of suitable conditions of environment. Antiseptics, medicaments, inoculations, and extirpating operations evade the real problem. Disease is the censor pointing out the humans, animals and plants who are imperfectly nourished." (Ref: Dr Jonn Matsen, 'Mysterious Causes & Cures of Illness')

It was enlightening for me to meet and talk with Mr Peter Pavlovich the owner of Stonemeal New Zealand, who took time out to explain what happens in nature to replenish the soil with minerals which beneficial bacteria feed on and in turn whose excretions feed the plants so they become strong and hardy (due to proper natural nutrition) and resistant to bugs and very nutritious for animal and human consumption. His industry is a natural method of bringing back into order our food chain that has gone drastically wrong through human interference by our industrial revolution. He is currently supplying stonemeal to some farmers and if we are wise we will not interfere with nature by introducing more problems of pollution for her to deal with and in turn should look at eradicating poisons to assist her in cleaning up our environment.

If you look very carefully mother-nature is very intricate, and when we upset her balance she retaliates - one case we can see is with diseases. As far as bugs are concerned they are part of our food chain, you poison them, you poison us, and that is exactly what is happening.

Phillip Day, Health Researcher and Reporter for Credence Publications in Kent, England, refers to one of his books as follows: "In Health Wars, we examine key features of the body's metabolic requirements for food. These axiomatic truths have been confirmed through the outstanding nutrition and physical condition of certain peoples on Earth who, in their native state, do not suffer the same legacy of disease and ill-health currently plaguing industrialised societies. Put simply, as we become more technologically advanced, so increases our temptation to fiddle with our food, water and air in our efforts to bring 'science' to a new plane of understanding and profitability. That this tinkering is in fact one of the chief causes of disease and misery today is widely ignored or trivialised by the arrogance of industry and our (mostly unhealthy) scientific peers, who seem to ignore the fact that while our world changes constantly around us (and often not for the best), our bodies still crave the same nutrients they always did."

(Ref: Phillip Day, 'Food for Thought', Credence Publications). From an article called "Tampering with Creation" in the NZ Herald on 23-24 August 2003, where Science Reporter Simon Collins looks into the latest state of play on GM; I quote the following excerpt: "and to insert into crops a protein made by the soil bacteria Bucillus Thuringiensis, or Bt, which kills harmful insects that try to eat, the crop."

The first question I would be asking is - if it kills harmful insects and because of the unnatural way of impregnation into plants, would it kill the good flora or bugs / digestive enzymes in our bodies too?

However, under the heading 'Is it safe?' the article goes on to say "Michael Meacher, the British Environment Minister who was sacked in June for expressing fears about GM food, points to evidence that: Rats fed on GM potatoes by Dr Arpad Pusztai at Scotland's Rowett Research Institute sometimes developed changes in their gut structure and reduced immune responsiveness to harmful agents compared with rats fed on ordinary
potatoes."

Further on in the article it says "Pusztai's research was not finished because he was sacked after voicing concern about testing procedures for GM foods. No one has ever repeated his study."

According to an article on 19 August 2003 in the NZ Herald, there are about 14 countries now growing GM crops on a commercial basis. We are a small country separated from the others by large masses of water; it would be prudent to use this to our advantage by:

· Keeping GM as far away as possible.
· Taking care of the soil by replenishing it naturally.
· Phasing out pesticides, herbicides, etc. and looking more to old methods of crop rotation and companion planting
· Big industries involved with chemicals or GM research can look at ways of improving NZ such as making natural organic sprays; they can turn their skills to ways of cleaning up the mess that has been created within our environment.

In other words, we could be the only clean, GM free country left in the world capable of turning things around, by providing other countries with natural seeds and plants, and organic produce. As a matter of interest I was told that our country already has a specialised breeding programme for rare species of animals from around the world; we even exported back to Australia their white-crested Wallabies when they were dying out.

Dr Jonn Matsen, Mr Phillip Day and Mr Peter Pavlovich, are all experts in their fields and humanitarians who could give valuable advice on how to get our world and health back on track.

It is my request and recommendation that before any decision is made on any type of GM, that Government seeks the advice / consultation with the experts mentioned above. Every single person's life depends on our food chain, therefore - careful, knowledgeable and wise consideration is necessary.

Dr Samuel Epstein, Chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition, endorses my concerns with regard to GM and toxins.

Regards

Lesley Fairthorne
8 October 2003

Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Crohn's disease (regional ileitis, regional enteritis), ulcerative colitis, leaky gut syndrome, diverticulosis, diverticulitis, dysbiosis, esophageal reflux, spastic colon, malabsorption syndrome (coeliac disease), etc.
Excerpted from The ABC's of Disease
by Phillip Day

Profile
More and more, people over the past fifty years have been suffering from a number of complaints affecting the entire length of the digestive system, from mouth and throat ailments, down to the stomach, and all the way through that serpentine piping to haemorrhoids around your afterburner. Some of these disorders are mild; others are extremely serious and will need addressing without delay.

I am lumping a group of conditions together here as Inflammatory Bowel Disease, since the remedies for them are essentially the same. Once the reader appreciates what these conditions are and how they are caused, the answer to most of the problems becomes straightforward enough to implement.

Crohn's Disease (Regional enteritis): Pain in the lower right abdomen, malabsorption of nutrients, low-grade fever, weight-loss, flatulence. Crohn's is a condition where segments of the colon (large intestine) become inflamed, thickened and ulcerated. Traditional treatments will include corticosteroids, antibiotics, immunosuppressive drugs and dietary changes. Crohn's can cause partial blockage of the large intestine, causing pain and bouts of diarrhoea. The same condition occurring in the small intestine is known as regional enteritis, the chronic form of which may also create fistulae (unnatural joinings) between adjacent loops of the intestines or between bowel tissue and the bladder, vagina or skin.
Ulcerative colitis: Inflammation of the colon lining. Symptoms are pain, with blood and/or mucus in the faeces.
Leaky gut syndrome: Where damage to the small intestine wall can increase gut permeability to undigested food particles which enter the bloodstream and begin causing 'allergic' reactions. Dr Leo Galland, Director of Medicine at the Foundation for Integrated Medicine, states: "Leaky gut syndrome is a group of clinical disorders associated with increased intestinal permeability. They include inflammatory and infectious bowel diseases, chronic inflammatory arthritides, cryptogenic skin conditions like acne, psoriasis and dermatitis herpetiformis, many diseases triggered by food allergy or specific food intolerance, including eczema, urticaria, and irritable bowel syndrome, AIDS, chronic fatigue syndromes, chronic hepatitis, chronic pancreatitis, cystic fibrosis and pancreatic carcinoma. Hyper-permeability may play a primary, etiologic role in the evolution of each disease, or may be a secondary consequence of it which causes immune activation, hepatic dysfunction, and pancreatic insufficiency, creating a vicious cycle. Unless specifically investigated, the role of altered intestinal permeability in patients with leaky gut syndrome often goes unrecognised."
Diverticulosis, diverticulitis: Sacs may appear in weak sections of the intestinal tract, caused by pressure from the inner lining (pulsion diverticula) or from pressure exerted without (traction diverticula). Diverticulosis describes the passive existence of diverticula. Diverticulitis describes the condition when these sacs become perforated, inflamed or impacted.
Dysbiosis: The human digestive system contains over four hundred species of microflora (bacteria, yeast, fungi, protozoa, etc.) weighing over three pounds. Usually, in a properly pH-adjusted, harmonious alimentary tract, they live together in peace and balance (homeostasis). When, through our choices of food and lifestyle, we upset this balance, dysbiosis occurs, a term, coined by Russian scientist Elie Metchnikoff, who maintained that toxic compounds produced by the aberrant breakdown of food by these bacteria caused many of the degenerative conditions, especially since this toxicity was carried to other parts of the body via the bloodstream and lymph (see Arthritis, Cancer, Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, etc.)
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS): A general condition, thought to affect over 15% of the western populations, describing generalised abdominal pain, usually accompanied by diarrhoea and constipation, that leads to dysfunctional contractions in the intestine. Officially, according to orthodox medicine, unwilling to accept the existence of this as a separate disorder, the cause of IBS is unknown. Unofficially, it is yet another physical manifestation of humans trying to put diesel into a gasoline-driven automobile, if you get my drift. We'll give the food industry a proper panning as we proceed.
Coeliac disease (malabsorption syndrome): A condition in which the small intestine fails to digest and absorb food. Usually due to gluten/gliaden damage, which atrophies the lining of the intestine. Symptoms include stunted growth, distended abdomen and pale, frothy, foul-smelling stools.

Commentary
Causes: Gluten/gliaden damage from wheat, barley, rye and oat products; bacterial and/or mycoplasmic infections; small intestine bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), brought on by low digestive enzyme output; processed diet; too much refined sugar and grains; too little fibre; generally acidic, anaerobic internal environment, resulting in an inadequate immune system response; antibiotic abuse; general drug abuse; poor water intake. Phew!

Bacteria, yeasts and fungi are generally quite sparse in the upper intestinal tract, but when overgrowths allow them to proliferate in the duodenum and jejunum (the majority portion of the small intestine), they can compete for nutrition with the host. This is where the problems begin. Symptoms describing overgrowths of these critters are well known: abdominal pain and cramps, constipation, diarrhoea, fatigue, fever, flatulence, foul-smelling faeces, skin rashes and hives, leaky gut, indigestion, reflux, low back pain, malabsorption and weight loss. They can cause a corruption and putrefaction of the food chyme (food leaving the stomach for the intestine).

Enzymes ejected from these organisms (known as decarboxylases) work on the chyme, converting the amino acids histadine to histamine (hence 'allergic' reactions sometimes treated with 'anti-histamines'), ornithine to putrescine and lysine to cadaverine. Actions of these products, known as vasoactive amines, will stir up a host of the problems we are examining in this chapter. These fungi and yeasts are responsible for many apparent food allergies. Proteins, such gluten from wheat and barley and casein from cow's milk, may also damage intestinal structure, bringing on some conditions.

Take action
This regime should be followed very strictly. Ensure regular food intakes, but small amounts, often.

· DIET: COMMENCE THE ANTI-CANDIDA DIETARY REGIMEN
· DIET: Follow also the Foods to avoid section of THE FOOD FOR THOUGHT LIFESTYLE REGIMEN
· DIET: AVOID ALL SUGAR AND YEAST
· DIET: Avoid all products that readily break down into glucose or have a yeast component: e.g. bread, pasta, pastries, sweets, pies, alcoholic beverages (esp. beers!) and some fruits and vegetables (see diet above)
· DIET: Drink at least four pints of clean, still mineral water a day (not out of plastic bottles and please avoid distilled water)
· PREVENTION: Don't smoke and avoid second-hand smoke
· PREVENTION: Avoid behavioural and dietary problems that have caused the condition
· DETOXIFICATION: Conduct a two-week bowel cleanse with magnesium oxide
· DETOXIFICATION: Cancer patients should also consider colon hydrotherapy for extra internal cleanliness
· RESTORING NUTRIENT BALANCE: COMMENCE THE BASIC SUPPLEMENT PROGRAM, including THE ANTI-CANDIDA/FUNGAL SUPPLEMENT-ATION, ensuring:
· A probiotic supplement to install beneficial flora
· Vitamin C complex (ascorbates plus bioflavonoids), 5 g per day. This amounts to one heaped teaspoon of C-complex powder per day. Take half of it in a bland juice, such as pear, every morning and the rest at night
· Take 1 tablespoon of ground flaxseed (linseed) meal or oil daily
· Pancreatic (digestive) enzyme capsules, two, three times daily away from food
· BOOSTING IMMUNITY: Astragalus and echinacea, (herbs), two capsules each, three times a day
· BOOSTING IMMUNITY: Indulge in regular and vigorous exercise (unless health problems prevent this) to exercise and pump the lymphatic system, rid the body of waste products and draw in oxygen
· BOOSTING IMMUNITY: Get plenty of rest
· TIP: Be consistent!
· TIP: Do not fall prey to sugar cravings. Who really wants to splurge and feed inside you?

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

Further Resources
The ABC's of Disease by Phillip Day

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The Fungal Etiology of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
by David A. Holland, M.D.

Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, although distinguished by well-known characteristics, are collectively known as inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). IBD is characterized by a host of symptoms such as diarrhoea, abdominal cramps, rectal bleeding, weight loss, fever, and a host of extra-intestinal symptoms, including disorders of the eyes, liver, gallbladder, muscles and joints, kidneys, and skin.1 The treatments usually focus on relief of symptoms with anti-inflammatory drugs or surgery (i.e. removal of the affected part of the intestines).

The cause of IBD remains "unknown." Some have implicated a viral etiology to IBD. In the medical journal The Lancet,2 Dr. Wakefield and colleagues found that three of four offspring in mothers that had measles during pregnancy developed severe Crohn's later in life. Of note is that recurrent antibiotic-resistant pneumonia preceded the Crohn's in every case.

This is important because antibiotics are known to increase the risk of fungal infection.3 Another study highlights this fact: an eight-year-old girl who was treated with antibiotics for recurrent upper respiratory tract infections developed intestinal candidiasis, an overgrowth of the yeast Candida albicans, in the gut.4

Other scientists have found carbohydrates to be a possible culprit. Two of three worldwide studies found the average intake of carbohydrates (including bread, potatoes, and refined sugars) to be much greater in those who developed IBD than in those who did not.5 Why would carbohydrates be implicated as a cause? Could it be that they are commonly contaminated with fungal toxins, according to a 2002 JAMA article and numerous agricultural publications, including the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology? 6, 7

In her book, "Breaking the Vicious Cycle," Elaine Gottschall describes the cycle of intestinal mucosal injury, impaired digestion, malabsorption, bacterial overgrowth, and increase in bacterial by-products and mucous production, which lead back to intestinal mucosal injury. We all know that antibiotics can alter the normal intestinal flora or bacteria. These bacteria usually keep in check the relatively small amount of existing yeast in the intestines.

However, when antibiotics are taken for various purposes--and you can bet those kids in Dr. Wakefield's study were given plenty of antibiotics--the normal, protective bacteria are eliminated, and yeast growth goes unchecked. The resulting effects range from "mild diarrhoea to severe colitis, or systemic fungal or bacterial dissemination."In Chapter 2 of our book, "The Fungus Link," you read about the link between arthritis and fungus".

When fungi become systemic from gut inflammation and the overuse of antibiotics, you can see how the whole body--again, the eyes, liver, gallbladder, muscles and joints, kidneys, and skin--becomes involved in inflammatory bowel disease.

Still other scientists have directly implicated yeast and fungal toxins, called mycotoxins, in the cause of Crohn's disease. Former World Health Organization expert Dr. A.V. Costantini has found that people with Crohn's often have aflatoxin, a mycotoxin made by Aspergillus molds, in their blood. Barclay found that disease activity in patients with Crohn's was lower while they followed a yeast-free diet, specifically avoiding baker's and brewer's yeasts.

Some feel that the yeast, Candida albicans, may be the cause of Celiac disease, also known as Sprue, or gluten-sensitive enteropathy.10 Celiac disease, doctors presume, is caused by a reaction to a protein particle called gluten that exists in certain grains.

This allergic-type reaction leads to inflammation and often severe symptoms in not only the intestines but also the entire body. Conventional treatment therefore involves suppressing the inflammation and symptoms with anti-inflammatory medications. It also requires the avoidance of these particular grains. Ironically, corn is a grain that does not contain gluten. It therefore falls in the "okay to eat" list offered by conventional practitioners and dieticians. Little do most practitioners know that corn is universally contaminated with mycotoxins.

So, over-consuming corn, as so many Celiac patients do since they have few other choices of grains in their diet, is likely to propagate the illness. Many people have successfully treated (dare we say cured?) their Celiac disease by not only avoiding grains altogether--especially corn--but also including antifungal medications in their treatment regimen. Such antifungals may include the natural, coconut-derived fatty acid known as Caprylic acid (available over the counter), or stronger, prescriptive antifungals. These stronger medicines might consist of a combination of nystatin (a broad spectrum gut antifungal) and either itraconazole (Sporanox®) or fluconazole (Diflucan®).

Chapter 13 of "Principles and Practice of Clinical Mycology" deals entirely with fungal infections in the gut. They describe how Blastomyces dermatitidis, a fungus, can produce "granulomatous" lesions in the intestines.

Not surprisingly, this same type of lesion has also been seen in patients with Crohn's disease. Another fungus called Histoplasma produces intestinal disease with symptoms such as diarrhoea, weight loss, fever, and abdominal pain--sound familiar? The common lesions seen in the gut with this infection were "masses or ulcers mimicking inflammatory bowel disease or carcinoma." The authors concluded that histoplasmosis should be a "serious consideration" in an immunocompromised patient with signs and symptoms of IBD.

Back to the big word "immunocompromised," which means the immune system has been compromised, or weakened. We strongly disagree that you must have cancer or AIDS or be on chemotherapy to have a weakened immune system. Just smell the air on your way to work or look at our standard American diet (SAD), or even look at the number of antibiotics we consume from childhood on. Could these be impeding our immune systems? Most antibiotics are mycotoxins--fungal derivatives.

Mycotoxins are commonly found in our grain food supply. Mycotoxins can suppress our normal immune function. Therefore, anyone who has taken an antibiotic or consumes grains or sugar qualifies as a potentially immunocompromised person.

We've seen thus far that, in just about every case of inflammatory bowel disease, conventional treatment involves the use of anti-inflammatories. Well, researchers at the Washington University in St. Louis took a bold step and did a study where they offered patients with Crohn's disease an immune stimulant instead. They used a medicine called Leukine--a naturally-occuring molecule called Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony Stimulating Factor (GM-CSF).

And though they faced harsh criticism from scientists at other universities for doing this, they obtained amazing results: of the initial 15 patients in the study, 12 did "significantly" better overall, while eight went into complete remission! Every one of the half a million patients with Crohn's disease in America should know about this study.

But they shouldn't feel they need to rush in to their doctor's office to get this expensive shot (it costs around $300 per milliliter--that's $1,500 per teaspoon).

Rather, they should learn from this study: by giving an immune booster, these doctors were able to put 53 percent of the cases into total remission. That almost implies that an infection is at the root of the disease, and that by assisting the body's immune system the medication helped the body overcome the "infection," or the disease.

Typically, an anti-inflammatory medicine merely controls the symptoms of the disease--it doesn't cure it. That's because it rarely addresses the true cause of the disease. In other words, if the wrong diet is constantly consumed, or if damage (i.e. yeast overgrowth) is never reversed from previous antibiotic use, a cure can almost never be achieved. In this case, we feel that the "infection" in the intestines of Crohn's patients is caused by fungi and their mycotoxins.

Incidentally, you can boost your immune system much less expensively and without a prescription by taking beta-glucans (see seagateproducts.com or nsc24.com). Using probiotics--Lactobacillus acidophilus, etc. (see natren.com)--is also extremely vital in reversing antibiotic damage, since these good bacteria can keep yeast and fungi from re-establishing themselves in the intestines.

Anyone who has been diagnosed with ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease knows the misery these diseases can cause. Given the alternatives for treatment--more immune-suppressing drugs and surgery--we think it would be worth a trial on a program that includes a low-carb diet and antifungal medications or supplements. A 1944 Johns Hopkins Clinical Mycology book stressed the importance of following a low-carb diet while treating yeasts.13 If a fungus or mycotoxin is truly involved, all of these approaches will do more than just suppress the symptoms of or "manage" the disease--they can actually cure it.
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PHILLIP DAY'S COMMENT: A great deal is now becoming known about fungi and their implications with ill-health. Drs. Kaufman and Holland are to be commended for their excellent books, as is Dr Joseph Mercola, who takes his characteristic, uncompromising stand on the same issues.

In my new book, The ABC's of Disease, I deal with inflammatory bowel disorders and show how using an anti-Candida diet and natural anti-fungal supplementation is the way to go. Knowing also the many causes of bowel dysbiosis and how this delicate balance can be disrupted with the baleful 21st century diet is also important.

Further resources
The ABC's of Disease by Phillip Day
Available at www.credence.org

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Barclay, G. R., et. al. (Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology. 1992. 27:196-200.
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Thalidomide Warning by Insurers
Who Refuse GM Crops Cover
by Robert Uhlig

The major agricultural insurance companies are refusing to insure farmers who intend to grow genetically modified crops, according to a survey that deals a further blow to Government hopes of approving at least one crop for commercial cultivation next year.

The survey, conducted by working farmers of FARM, a campaign group, found insurance companies unwilling to take on the risk of liability claims against farmers who grew GM crops.

Leading rural insurance underwriters told the farmers that they were concerned that "GM could be like thalidomide - only after some time would the full extent of the problems be seen". Some spoke of the potential of lawsuits akin to the big payouts for asbestos - exposure victims. "Fifty years ago, insurers were writing policies for asbestos without a care in the world. Now, they are facing claims of millions of pounds," one underwriter told the farmers.

"The insurance industry has learned to be wary of new things, and there is a real feeling that GM could come back and bite you in five years' time."

Rural insurers are so concerned at the scope for liability claims if the Government approves GM crops that they are even refusing to insure non-GM farmers due to contamination by GM pollen.

The problem of how to grow GM crops and conventional varieties has proved to be such a difficult issue to resolve that the Prime Minister's advisers have repeatedly failed to reach a consensus. The Agriculture and Environment Biotechnology Commission, which advises the Government, is expected to deliver a much delayed report on co-existence by the end of the month.

All the insurers surveyed felt that too little was known about the long-term effects on human health and the environment to be able to offer any form of cover for farmers growing GM crops. Even the NFU Mutual, the insurance arm of the National Farmers' Union, which is in favour of GM crops, will not provide insurance for farmers wanting to grow GM crops. A spokesman said the company believed the risks were not fully understood and advised farmers to seek cover through the biotechnology companies that own the patent to GM seeds.

Agricultural Insurance Underwriters Agency, which underwrites policies for Norwich Union and Sun Alliance, said it had an exclusion clause for liability arising from GM crops. Rural Insurance Group, which underwrites Lloyds' policies, puts GM crops in the same bracket as terrorism and excludes them from cover.

BIB Underwriters Limited, which underwrites AXA policies, said it would turn down any policy that has any association with GM, including cover for farm building and property insurance as well as public liability. A spokesman said that aside from the problems from cross contamination, BIB anticipated a risk of claims associated with arson or vandalism due to anti- GM protesters.

Robin Maynard, the national co-ordinator of FARM, said:"When insurers quantify GM crops in the same category as thalidomide, asbestos and terrorism, no thinking farmer should risk their business and public reputation by taking on this unproven, unwanted and unnecessary technology."
The Daily Telegraph, 8th October, 2003

Parents Seeking MMR Compensation
Lose Legal Aid for Court Fight
by Nicole Martin

Parents, seeking compensation for children they claim have been affected by the MMR vaccine, attacked a decision yesterday to withdraw legal aid for their High Court battle with three drugs companies.

They condemned as "illogical and perverse" the decision by the Legal Services Commission to stop its funding only six months before the cases of more than 1,000 children were due to be heard.

The children involved in the court cases, suffer from a range of disabilities including autism, bowel problems, epilepsy and other learning difficulties. The LSC said medical research had failed to provide a conclusive link between the jab and autism. It would, therefore, "not be correct" to spend a further £10 million of public money funding a trial that "is very unlikely to succeed".

But JABS, a parent support organisation, said the withdrawal of legal aid, upheld on appeal yesterday, "served no public interest".

Jackie Fletcher, the national co-ordinator, whose 11- year-old son developed epilepsy after having the jab, said the decision dealt a serious blow to parents seeking justice for their children. "These families believe their children are vaccine damaged and need to know why their lives changed so dramatically within such a short time of the MMR vaccine being given if it wasn't the vaccine," she said.

"The court cases were vital not only to the families involved in the pursuit of justice for their children, but for all parents concerned about whether the vaccines they are giving their healthy children, are safe." She said that in America, the government and drugs companies recognised that "vaccine damage" did occur, and that the American National Vaccine Compensation programme provided a "no fault" compensation system.

The LSC said it recognised that the children suffered from a series of serious medical conditions, and that the matter was of sufficient public interest to justify the £15 million invested in the case.

But the failure of any medical body to provide a concrete link between the MMR jab and these health problems meant the case had little chance of success.

"I appreciate that this decision will come as a great disappointment to the parents involved," said Clare Dodgson, the LSC chief executive. "I sympathise with their situation. Their children are clearly ill and they genuinely believe the MMR vaccine caused their illness. However, this litigation is very unlikely to prove their suspicions."

Alexander Harris, the solicitors' firm representing the families, said it was "deeply disappointed" and "very surprised" at the decision.

The Health Department said it hoped that the LSC's decision would "draw a line" under the MMR issue.
The Daily Telegraph, 2nd October, 2003

Periodontal Disease
Gingivitis, periodontitis, etc.
Excerpted from The ABC's of Disease
by Phillip Day

Profile
Periodontal disease is a collective term for disorders which affect the support and surrounding structures of the teeth, namely the gums, alveolar bone, and the outer layer of the tooth root. The very common gingivitis affects the gums surrounding the teeth. The more serious periodontitis, usually following on from gingivitis, includes loose teeth, periodontal pockets (between gums and teeth) and signs of infection and the weeping of bacteria. Root fillings may also 'go bad', and produce infection, copious weeping of bacteria, and eventually the tooth should be pulled.

Periodontal disease should be viewed as a systemic problem involving poor nutrition, immunity and hormonal imbalances in females. In America, 54% of adults over fifty suffer from periodontal disease. The disorder may also indicate a serious underlying condition, such as diabetes, anaemia, vitamin deficiency disorders and collagen irregularities. Patients suffering from the toxic immune disorder AIDS often suffer gum disease problems which progress rapidly. The condition manifests itself in several different forms:

Gingivitis: One of the most common manifestations of periodontal disease is the reddened, swollen, and often bleeding gums of gingivitis, caused by the actions of bacterial plaque on the surfaces of the teeth adjacent to the inflamed tissues. Plaque, a soft, sticky film mostly comprising bacteria, if not cleared away by brushing and flossing of the teeth, hardens into tartar (calculus) within 72 hours, which has to be removed through dental cleaning. Gingivitis can also be prevalent during hormonal fluctuations in women, brought on by pregnancy, periods, puberty, menopause and the use of birth control pills. In gingivitis, the gums become red and swollen, they often bleed, and are moveable, rather than tight against the teeth.
Periodontitis: Brought on by aggravated gingivitis, a long-term accumulation of plaque and tartar between the teeth and gums will cause pockets to develop between the tooth and gum, allowing the proliferation of bacteria in an anaerobic environment, which promotes their rapid growth. Eventually, jaw bone loss will result in loose teeth. Eventually the patient will lose the affected tooth. Periodontitis progress depends on a number of factors, including the condition of the patient's immune system, frequency of dental care, brushing and flossing, and whether they have an underlying disorder which often promotes the condition, such as those with diabetes mellitus, Crohn's disease, AIDS, or a lack of red blood cells. Patients with acidosis problems may also develop periondontitis, as will those whose diet contains a high degree of acidity which promotes the growth of bacteria and plaque.

Commentary
Bacteria have long been blamed for causing periodontal disease, and yet each of us has bacteria in our mouth. The deciding factors in poor or healthy teeth revolve around, not only their lifestyle and diet, but also the condition of the patient's internal environment and immune system. Here is a checklist:

· Does the patient have poor immunity and catch infections easily?
· Do they suffer from fungal, bacterial or yeast infections, manifesting elsewhere in the body?
· Do they have poor dental hygiene, which results in the proliferation of bacteria?
· Are these bacteria secreting endo/exotoxins, collagen-destroying enzymes and bacterial antigens?
· Does the patient have an underlying systemic disorder, such as diabetes?
· Does the patient suffer from nutritional deficiency problems, bringing on disorders such as scurvy, heart disease, pellagra or schizophrenia?
· Does the patient eat a highly processed, sugary diet?
· Does the patient drink fizzy soda drinks?
· Has the patient received one or more root fillings?
· Is the patient elderly and malnourished in general?
· Is the patient exhibiting hormonal problems?
· Are they pregnant or going through the menopause?
· Has the patient complained of faulty dental work?
· Does the patient have an acidosis problem?

Smoking
One of the chief causes of periodontal disease is smoking, where acidity and free-radical damage to the structures of the mouth cause bacteria to proliferate. Smoking also consumes huge levels of available vitamin C in the body, often contributing to other immunity problems. Stubborn smokers should be taking increased levels of C complex (ascorbates plus bioflavonoids) as well as carotenes to improve their immunity. Alternatively, you should dump this nasty, destructive habit.

Take action
A systemic approach to periodontal disease will provide the best results. There are a few do's and don't's, which must be adhered to:

· DIET: COMMENCE THE FOOD FOR THOUGHT LIFESTYLE REGIMEN, ensuring no sugar, no sugary foods, absolutely no white bread and no teas and coffees - green teas OK
· RESTORE NUTRIENT BALANCE: COMMENCE THE BASIC SUPPLEMENT PROGRAM, ensuring:
· Vitamin C complex, 2 g, twice per day
· Flavonoids, such as quercetin, catechin, anthocyanidins and proanthocyanidins. These can be supplemented or provided for in a diet rich in extracts from hawthorn, bilberry and green tea
· Vitamin E, 400 IU, twice per day
· Selenium, 200 mcg, twice per day
· Coenzyme Q10, as directed
· Beta-carotene (vitamin A precursor), as directed
· TIPS: Keep to an alkalising diet
· Stop smoking
· Reduce alcoholic intake or stop altogether
· If suffering from hormonal irregularities or other disorders, see appropriate section(s) of this book
· Exercise regularly to boost circulation, detoxification and immunity

Further Resources
Toxic Bite by Bill Kellner-Read
The ABC's of Disease by Phillip Day

Available through www.credence.org

No Proof Mental Illness Rooted In Biology
by Keith Hoeller

What is "the mental health movement?" Its proponents claim that millions of Americans are afflicted with a mental illness, which is a disease "just like any other" and that the mentally ill suffer from a chemical imbalance in the brain that is corrected by psychiatric drugs.

Mental illness is said to be the cause of many of our society's social ills, such as suicide, murder, divorce, child abuse, sex offences, depression and various addictions. If only mental illness could be cured, mental health supporters say, all of these ills could be prevented.

Because the mentally ill often are unaware of their disease, treatment must be forced on the mentally ill. All 50 states have laws that allow involuntary treatment if professionals deem they are a danger to self and others.

Psychiatrists, we are told, can now accurately diagnose mental illness and have safe and effective treatments. Psychiatry is considered a valid medical specialty, like cardiology, and the claims of the movement are based on scientific research.

The largest lay group is the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI). The media routinely refer to NAMI as advocates for the mentally ill, although its membership consists almost entirely of family members and not the mentally ill themselves. NAMI ascribes to the "biological basis of mental illness," and endorses forced treatment of the mentally ill.

The movement's major source of funding is the highly profitable pharmaceutical industry, which funds the drug research; which funds psychiatric journals, and even the American Psychiatric Association itself; which funds advertising to doctors and the public; and even funds lay groups such as NAMI (at least $11 million) and Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder (at least $1 million).

Yet many professionals claim that the mental health movement is not a legitimate medical or scientific endeavour, let alone a civil rights movement, but a political ideology of intolerance and inhumanity. Numerous psychiatrists and psychologists have examined the psychiatric research literature and found it to range from smoke and mirrors to quackery.

Psychiatrists have yet to conclusively prove that a single mental illness has a biological or physical cause, or a genetic origin. Psychiatry has yet to develop a single physical test that can determine that an individual actually has a particular mental illness. Indeed, The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders uses behaviour, not physical symptoms, to diagnose mental illness, and it lacks both scientific reliability and validity.

On Aug. 16, eight members of MindFreedom (www.mindfreedom.org), an umbrella organization of mental patients who call themselves "psychiatric survivors," began a Fast for Freedom "to press for human rights and choice in psychiatry" and to "demand that the mental health industry produce even one study proving the common industry claim that 'mental illness is biologically-based.' "

Dr. James Scully of the American Psychiatric Association responded to the hunger strikers by claiming the evidence was so vast one need only look at "Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General" (1999) or a recent psychiatry textbook.

An expert panel for the strikers, made up of members (like myself) of the International Centre for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology (www.icspp.org), quickly responded by pointing out that neither of these works contains any such conclusive proof. Actually, the surgeon general's report on mental health states that "the precise causes (etiology) of mental disorders are not known" and "there is no definitive lesion, laboratory test, or abnormality in brain tissue that can identify (a mental) illness." The Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry (1999) states: " ... Validation of the diagnostic categories as specific entities has not been established."

In its reply to the fasters, the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill did not cite any scientific evidence at all.

In 1784, a similar debate raged in Paris about the scientific validity of the latest psychiatric nostrum (hypnotism) and its inventor, Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer, who claimed to have discovered a physical mechanism he called animal magnetism. The Academy of Sciences formed a panel, including American scientist Benjamin Franklin and French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, to assess the movement sweeping the city, and concluded that Mesmer's "cures" had no scientific basis. They were due entirely to the power of suggestion, now called the placebo effect. The Royal Society of Medicine issued a report with similar findings on Aug. 16, 1784.

Let us hope the Fast for Freedom has a positive outcome for all involved.

If not, let us insist that the American Medical Association (or similar body) form a panel of objective, non-psychiatric scientists, without any ties to drug companies, to examine whether psychiatry should continue as a medical specialty or if it should join the historical ranks of alchemy, astrology and phrenology as a pseudoscience.
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Dr. Keith Hoeller is editor of the "Review of Existential Psychology & Psychiatry" in Seattle.

PHILLIP DAY'S COMMENT: The fraudulence of almost all psychiatry is examined in detail in my book, The Mind Game, for which The Campaign for Truth in Medicine received a human rights award earlier in the year. In this work, the reader will learn of the quackery and downright criminal activity, perpetrated by psychiatry, which continues to plague our society. From ADD to schizophrenia to dyslexia and 'learning disorders', Dr Hoeller is indeed correct. These are not 'mental diseases'. When these symptoms exist at all, science has found physical ailments which affect the workings of the mind at the root of them. As such, these can be successfully treated in most cases using nutritional and lifestyle strategies.

In The Mind Game, there is a chapter on the school shooting phenomenon in America. Another examines Hollywood and how psychiatry has killed some of our best loved stars. Another conducts an in-depth analysis into the rock, pop and rap industry, and show the forces at work within it that have destroyed the lives of many working in the entertainment industry.

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Some feedback from our subscribers

I am very interested in your cancer prevention methods. Thank you, Mr Day, for your help. Keep up the good work and God bless you. Keith D., N.S.W., Australia

Will be delighted to get your bulletin. Keep up the good work. The information is wonderful. Thank you very much. Mrs Sheila B., Louth, Ireland

A mind- opener. Anthony S., Nottinghamshire, UK.

I am a teacher trying to assist my students to make better and healthier choices.
Mrs Vivien F., South Australia

CTM is an excellent publication which provides excellent research/remedies on most health issues the general public need to discover. The sooner more people, especially those without 'www' access, become aware of the way the media and governments keep the general public in the dark, the better. Well done CTM and Credence. Chris O., Norwich, UK

Top website and thanks for making it! Mr Keith H., Manchester, UK

Keep up the good work! Warmest regards from Curry! John B., Co. Sligo, Ireland

Thank you for the great effort you all are putting in to such an important and worthwhile cause. Keep up the great work. John B., W.A., Australia

I have seen Phillip Day four or five times now. He is an excellent speaker and his talks are always very informative and enlightening. Keep up the good work! Helene R., Essex, UK

Hats off to you. Thanks for keeping us informed of the "hidden" truth about health issues and other related matters. Your books are well worth reading, articulately written and facts and references are well researched. Juanita P., Victoria, Australia

Great! I fully support the whole thing having been through a dysfunctional medical system which made me even sicker. Robert C., Christchurch, New Zealand

I think that what is being offered by Phillip Day is really good. Mary S., Otorohanga, New Zealand

Good stuff! Peter F., Gauteng, South Africa

You have given me "food for thought"! An excellent talk. Cynthia M., Flintshire, UK

Please send me regular updates and let me know how I can be more involved. I am a PhD student, studying Alternative Health in Britain from January 2004 onwards. Amrana A., Leicestershire, UK.

Keep up the good work! Brad W., Essex, UK

Dear Phillip

When you were in Ballarat last November you asked me to write of my experience with breast cancer to encourage women with the same problem to try alternative treatment.

Early in 2001, I felt a lump in my left breast. As it was very painful and movable I thought it was a cyst. I waited two months before seeing a surgeon. In that time it didn't alter. I had tests and a biopsy, which gave a diagnosis of cancer.

My surgeon wanted to do a mastectomy with removal of the lymph nodes or a lumpectomy with removal of the lymph nodes, six weeks' radiotherapy and Tamoxifen to follow.

I refused all this and just had a lumpectomy. Returning to my surgeon, I was told he had cut too close to the tumour and I would have to return to the hospital for the removal of more tissue. I was very sick after the second operation and then developed pleurisy and pneumonia. My surgeon had also wanted to experiment before the first operation by injecting dye into my breast and seeing which lymph nodes it affected. I also refused this. I was in almost constant pain for months at the site of the operation after reopening the incision.

After recovering from the pleurisy and pneumonia, I went to a clinic in Victoria for several weeks to have B17 and vitamin C intravenously. Since then I have returned to normal living which I am certain I would not have done after the treatment of radiotherapy and Tamoxifen. Sorry I have not written sooner but I feel more confident now that alternative treatment is working for me. I am careful of my diet and eat apricot kernels every day.
Your sincerely, Joan, Australia

Keep up the fantastic work and everyone that works for the good of the world of health. Heather B., South Australia

Thanks very much for your great work. Anna G., Victoria, Australia