Up Close and Personal
The monthly interview with CTM Founder, Phillip Day

ECLUB: Welcome back. How was Portugal?
PD: Never has my chicken been so piri-piri'ed, Brian.
ECLUB: Feel rested?
PD: You bet. In fact, of interest to those of our subscribers who live with the constant flux of stress is 'new' research on holidays. The basic problem is, we're not taking our full allowance, and even if we do, we let the boss know where we are so he can contact us at any time!
ECLUB: Oh, dear.
PD: Yup. Another study just out shows nearly half of all Brits either stay in contact with their boss during holiday or do some work-related tasks while they are away. The problem with this is that stress patterns build up through repetitive behaviour carried out in a state of emotion over a period of time (and become addiction patterns). It usually takes 15-30 days of isolation from the stress pattern and its locational adjuncts in order to overwrite it. Clearly most people are not taking four-week holidays in a state of complete isolation from their workplace, mission, or whatever they usually handle (yes, even kids!). One of the topics we'll be discussing on my forthcoming Attitude Tour of New Zealand and Australia is how we can reorganize our time better to use enjoyable holidays as the best form of stress-busting.
ECLUB: What else do you have for us?
PD: As most know, Mo Mowlam, former Blair New Labour acolyte and erstwhile Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, sadly succumbed to cancer last month. Mo's husband Jon Norton revealed this week that her death came as a result of the cancer treatments themselves rather than her brain tumour. Folks, to put it mildly, radiation is not good for the body. According to the Institute of Cancer Research, around four in every ten cancer patients in Britain - an estimated 100,000 people every year - receive radiotherapy. It is given to patients whose cancer is limited to one organ. The aim is to shrink the tumour and kill any rogue cancer cells that may go on to multiply. What radiation NEVER does is correct the underlying reason why cancer began in the first place. This is corrected, and can only be corrected, by lifestyle and dietary changes. If you are reading this and you or a loved one has cancer, click here to take our Internet tour on the cancer. And let us stop this mindless burning and poisoning when all the body is crying out for is some decent grub.
ECLUB: But what about the claims for survival?
PD: The cancer industry has redefined the meaning of the word survival to indicate only survival within five years of initial treatment. This deceitfully enables cancer charities to claim 80% of women survive breast cancer, when what they really mean is, 80% of women with breast cancer are still alive five years later, which they would be anyway if they went home, changed their diet and lifestyle, and stayed away from doctors. Notice, in Mo Mowlam's case, how her husband declares that "There was no recurrence of the cancer, nor the tumour. She did not have a stroke, she did not break her neck and there was no internal bleeding." Yes, but she's dead, Jon.
A reverse case of an individual using diet and lifestyle to cure himself of cancer is that of Oxford don, Michael Gearin-Tosh, whose obituary is also posted in this month's bulletin.
ECLUB: What else?
PD: A great article by Stuart Kirk entitled, 'Are we all going mad, or are the experts crazy?' which gets into the fraudulence of psychiatry and the mental health system. I am simply delighted about the $142 million kick in the rear for Merck, which is having to pay out this improbable sum to the family of just one of the 65,000-plus people it killed with its arthritis drug, Vioxx. Pie-in-the-sky perhaps to hope these jury trials will help correct the abuses and suffering mankind has undergone at the hands of the 'health industry' for the future. But it does show, in America at least, an anger at the drug lords which is starting to make itself felt.
ECLUB: Can you see a similar reaction in Britain?
PD: Hardly. The British LOVE drugs! They love the ritual of being told there's something the matter with them and receiving a prescription. Much better a pill than change their wicked ways. In Britain, prescription drugs kill six times as many people as road accidents, and that's just the ones they're owning up to (the drugs not the accidents). The UK's adverse event reporting scheme, known in football vernacular as 'The Yellow Card' (the Red presumably when you're dead), is absolutely laughable. a) it's VOLUNTARY, i.e., doctors have to report the events themselves! b) patient reports are ignored and c) the whole rotten program is funded by the pharmaceutical industry and administered by such compromised organisations as the MHRA and CSM. In other words, the wolf telling you someone's been in the hen house. And the MHRA have the gall to run around rousting sellers of vitamins, all the while presiding over this grisly slaughter?
ECLUB: I see you've lost nothing of your fighting spirit.
PD: Queuing up in Faro airport for four hours probably had something to do with it.
ECLUB: Thank you, Phillip.