Most Astonishing Health Disaster of the 20th Century - 2006
This promotional video for Dr. Mercola's book and website succinctly sums up the American 'health' industry. (The info applies to all modern nations.)
Food Matters Documentary - Great Film on Food & Health - 2008
Hippocrates said: "Let they Food be thy Medicine and they Medicine be they Food." Food Matters is a hard-hitting documentary on the effect of our fast food and drug fixation, which may keep doctors in business and money in the coffers of the pharmaceutical industry, but is literally killing us as a nation. To watch trailer, click here. To watch/buy: foodmatters.tv
The Last Days Of Health Freedom - Kevin P. Miller (Apr 2006)
Details the ongoing attempts by multinational pharmaceutical interests and giant food companies — in concert with the WTO, the WHO and others — to limit the public’s access to herbs, vitamins and other therapies.
FrankenFood GMO Disease - 4/08
Morgellon's Disease sounds like a horror movie: rashes appear on the skin which becomes itchy to the point of suicide and starts to produce unusual multicolored fibers. A study has shown that these fibers contain DNA from both a fungus and bacterium used in the commercial preparation of genetically modified foods and non-food crops (such as cotton). So far around 1200 people are reported to have this nightmare disease, but the numbers will no doubt grow as GM foods continue to be eaten in ever larger quantities (70-80% of all US foods now contain unlabelled GM ingredients.) And it is not just Morgellon's we have to worry about: according to Mike Stagman, PhD, "Genetic Engineering is a nightmare technology that has already caused MANY disease epidemics — documented but unpublicized." [more info]
Reassessment of Recreational Drug Dangers - 02/08
BBC's Horizon program reports on the investigation of a team of scientists reassessing the dangers of recreational drugs. They took into consideration three factors: the research on their effects on the body, short and long term; their addictiveness; and their effect on society. The following is how they ordered the top 20 recreational drugs in terms of their dangerousness: 1. Heroin — no surprises here! 2. Cocaine — crack is even more dangerous 3. Barbituarates (Pink Ladies) — prescription 4. Street Methadone 5. Alcohol — legal and extremely dangerous 6. Ketamine (Special K) — horse tranquillizer 7. Benzodiazepine (Downers) — prescription 8. Amphetamine (Speed) — prescription 9. Tobacco — legal, unhealthy and addictive 10. Buprenorphine — prescription 11. Cannabis (Hash, Dope) — not as safe as believed 12. Solvents — legal 13. 4MTA (Flatliner) 14. LSD (acid) — completely non-toxic to the body 15. Methylphenidate — prescription 16. Anabolic Steroids 17. GHB (Liquid Ecstasy) — known as "date rape" drug 18. Ecstasy (E) — safe but danger in dehydration 19. Alkyl Nitrite (Poppers) — legal 20. Khat — legal
What is astonishing is how those who use alcohol or tobacco — highly dangerous drugs responsible for the vast majority of drug deaths and social ills — often stigmatise the safer alternatives.
Minimize Pesticide Exposure - 02/08
Okay, so you can't afford or can't get hold of organic food. Well the next best thing is to select very carefully what you buy, because some fruits and vegetables generally have far more pesticide residues than others. The Environmental Working Group has produced a list rating non-organic fruits and vegetables: Safest (lowest pesticide residue): Onions, avocado, frozen sweet corn, pineapples, mango, frozen peas, asparagus, kiwi, bananas, cabbage, broccoli, eggplant. Most dangerous (only buy organic): peaches, apples, sweet peppers, celery, nectarines, strawberries, cherries, lettuce, grapes (imported), pears, spinach and potatoes.
Safety of Wi-Fi / WiMax in doubt - 12/07
Wireless technology is currently invading our homes, yet few are aware that it has never been properly safety tested. In fact, there is a growing body of research accumulating to suggest that wireless radiation can cause an array of serious health problems from cancers to reduced cognitive function. Researchers now believe that the radiation from these devices, and similar ones like mobile phones, are able to close down our cellular membrane transport system, which starves our cells of nutrients and prevents toxins from leaving. Yet the industry and our governments ignores these findings and push ahead regardless. [Source - Ecologist. Further info - powerwatch.org.uk, safewireless.org]
Drug Side Effects Increasingly Alarmingly - 11/07
Serious bad reactions to pharmaceutial drugs were 2.6 times more frequent in 2005 than they were in 1998, with deaths increasing by 2.7 times during this period. [New Scientist]
A picture of modern health - 11/07 I was walking along the street in London the other day and passed this medical centre. Nothing wrong with that… until I looked up. There, on top of the building were several TETRA masts, two of which are visible in this photo. For those of you who do not know, TETRA masts are mobile phone transmitter/receivers whose pulsed microwave radiation has been linked to cancer, nervous system and brain disorders. (mastsanity.org, tetrawatch.net, electrosensitivity.org.uk) So this picture neatly encapsulates modern healthcare: we ignore the causes of our ill-health — poor diet, pollution, radiation and sedentary lifestyles — in favour of an expensive patch-up healthcare system that focuses merely on symptomatic relief. This way healthcare becomes moneycare, and the system drains our health in order to maximise profit.
Orthodox Medicine Untested - Nov 2007
Doctors are always going on about how alternative medicine is untested. Well, perhaps these hypocrites should get their own profession in order before pointing a figure at others. The BMJ's Clinical Evidence website shows that only 13% of orthodox treatments are definitely beneficial — no doubt a generous estimate! clinicalevidence.bmj.com
High IQ kids more likely to become vegetarians - 11/07
New research at Southampton University in the UK shows that ntelligent children are more likely to become vegetarians later in life. Lead researcher Catharine Gale said: "The finding that children with greater intelligence are more likely to report being vegetarian as adults, together with the evidence on the potential benefits of a vegetarian diet on heart health, may help to explain why higher IQ in childhood or adolescence is linked with a reduced risk of coronary heart disease in adult life." [source]
With the cold and flu season approaching, herbalist Klaus Ferlow shows us how to best naturally protect ourselves from these and how to maintain a healthy immune system. [more >>]
Drug side-effects dismissed by doctors - Sept 2007
A survey of 650 patients taking cholesterol-lowering statins by Dr. Golomb and colleagues at the University of California in San Diego found that, "Physicians seem to commonly dismiss the possibility of a connection [between reported side-effects and statin use]. This seems to occur even for the best-supported adverse effects of the most widely prescribed class of drugs…" Side-effects of statins include liver damage and muscle problems, as well as cognitive problems. Overall, 32% of patients reported that their doctors told them there was no link between their symptoms and atatin use, 39% said their physicians said such a connection was possible, and 29% said their doctors "neither endorse nor dismissed the possibility of symptom link to statins." [source]
Neem oil is extracted from the seeds and leaves of the neem tree which is found in India. Herbalist Klaus Ferlow outlines some of its remarkable healing properties and many uses. [more >>]
Liquid herbal tinctures have significant health advantages over corresponding encapsulated herbs, yet the latter dominate the market because they are much cheaper to produce. [more >>]
Most of us love the smell of a good fragrance, without realizing that these ubiquitous chemical cocktails can damage our health in many different ways and pollute the environment. [more >>]
$75,000 can't bribe a doctor to drink a vaccine! - 08/07
Jack Doubleday, director of the non-profit corporation Natural Woman, Natural Man, Inc., is now offering $90,000 to the first medical doctor or pharmaceutical company CEO who publically drinks a mixture of standard vaccine additives, similar to those recommended for 6-year-olds by the US Centers for Diesase Control and Prevention (CDC). This mixture will body-weight calibrated and will include: thimerosal (a mercury derivative), ethylene glycol (anti-freeze), phenol (a disinfectant dye), aluminium (a bio-toxic metal), benzethonium chloride (a toxic disinfectant) and formaldehyde (a toxic preservative and disinfectant). This offer was originally $20,000 back in Jan 2001, and has rises steadily over the years. Doubleday will now be increasing it at $5000 a month until someone has the courage to drink what they are happy to inject into children. www.vaclib.org
"A study of nearly a million Medicare patients provides a compelling example of how too much care can cause harm. Medicare patients treated at hospitals that did the most test and treatment and spent the most money were up to 6% more likely to die than patients at hospitals spending the least. In short, more spending, more hospitalisation, more technology and more drugs do not necessarily equal better health care." Kim Ridley, Ode Magazine Vol 5 Issue 6
Can you spot what is wrong with this picture? - 06/2007
Guy's Hospital is one of the main teaching hospitals in the UK, turning out new generations of doctors and dentists. But wait a minute: what message is Guys giving allowing a McDonalds fast food outlet to be integrated into its compound? Is it any wonder that conventional doctors tend to be so ignorant regarding the central role of diet in health and disease? And this is nothing unusual: fast-food outlets are now in most Western hospitals.
Detoxification is a vital component to natural health because toxic overload is behind so many chronic modern illnesses. Brooks examines detoxification and its importance to health. [more >>]
Codex Alimentarius - The End of Natural Health
Over here in Europe, many of us know the horrors of "Codex Alimentarius," a set of internationally recognized food standards and nutritional guidelines that basically hand every aspect of food, food production and nutrition over to the control of big business (which will end up producing profitable toxic, modified, irradiated and nutritionally-void food). We know Codex over here because we are currently witnessing the disappearance of thousands of safe and effective vitamins, minerals and other nutritional supplements from our shelves for no other reason than the "harmonisation" of Europe. But those in the US seem to believe that they are safe from Codex because, in 1994, The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) was passed which supposedly protects the right to natural health supplements and therapies. However, things are not what they seem and Codex IS going to have an enormous impact on the United States.
To find out more, watch this disturbing video or visit www.healthfreedomusa.org and sign the petition.
US Prescription Deaths skyrocket - Mar 2007
On the 9th Feb, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report entitled, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, showing that deaths from prescription drugs rose in the US from 4.4 per 100,000 in '99 to 7.1 per 100,00 in '04. This increase actually represents a jump from 11,000 to 20,000 people. These figures are considered very conservative in the health industry, and the actual numbers of people killed by the pharmaceutical industry is probably a lot higher. The Institute of Medicine - IOM - estimate that 225,000 people die in the USA every year as a result of orthodox medicine, and half these are due to prescription drugs. (This estimate was considered accurate enough to publish in prestigious Journal of American Medical Association in 2000.) In the words of Mike Adams, a consumer health advocate: "The entire drug industry, including the monopolistic drug giants and their FDA co-conspirator, has clearly become the single greatest threat to the health and safety of the American people."
Can we really have healthy, young-looking skin by plying ourselves with the chemical concoctions found in today's skin creams? Ferlow presents healthy and natural options. [more >>]
Depleted uranium is weapon of mass destruction developed and sold by the US which is increasingly believed to be responsible for a new global epidemic of cancer and diabetes. [more >>]
GlaxoSmithKline hid suicide link to Seroxat - Jan 07
The anti-depressant, Seroxat, was banned for under 18s in 2003 after GSK's own studies showed that the drug trebles the risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviour in depressed children. And yet, the BBC investigative program, Panorama, reveals that GSK was aware of the problem and yet paid an expert psychiatrist, Dr. Neal Ryan of the University of Pittsburgh, to promote its effectiveness as an anti-depressant nonetheless. Even an email from GSK's own PR department stated that "Essentially the study did not really show it was effective in treating adolescent depression." Here in the UK, the MHRA in the UK began criminal investigations into GSK's conduct three years ago and yet NO ACTION has yet been taken. Can you imagine if this was a natural health supplement? It would be banned immediately, the perpetrators jailed and negative press on health supplements plastered all over the mass media. But because it involves a pharmaceutical company with big money and influence, the MHRA is taking a "cautious" approach, nobody has been indicted and there is no negative press for pharmaceuticals. GSK now faces legal action from bereaved US families (although in the UK there is no legal aid for victims to sue pharmaceuticals).
What sort of future do you want for your children? Do you want them to be free and healthy, living in an open democracy? If so, you need to act now because time is running out. [more >>]
Big Pharmas spends $60bn a year on drug PR - July 06
A report issued by Consumers International last month entitled Branding the Cure has slated the pharmaceutical industry for putting the maximization of profit before people's health (no big surprise here). Based on an in depth study of 20 of the world's largest drug companies, the report criticises the $60bn spent annually by the industry on drug promotion, and accuses these companies of creating illnesses and using kickbacks, cartels, infiltrating patient groups, universities and chatrooms in an effort to maximize their profits — a cunning way to bypass the ban on advertising direct to the public We have seen a lot of this in the media recently with newspapers whipping up outrage at the refusal of health services to give the latest drug solutions to seriously ill patients on grounds of cost or medical evidence. In this way, patients are being manipulated by the pharmaceutical industry into acting as their PR agents. These companies also use specialist PR consultancies that groom health professionals to become 'key opinion leaders' and to promote their products through their work, and over half of them have been implicated in anti-competitive strategies including cartels, fraudulent patent manoeuvres, improper discounts, price hikes, payments to competitors for not challenging patents, and the restriction of supply to keep prices high. The report also questions the practice of the pharmaceutical industry funding scientific studies, a clear conflict of interest and one that has been shown to favourably manipulate the results. [Source: The Ecologist]
All but the most natural toiletries and cosmetics on the market contain dangerous poisons, disguised under unintelligible names on the label. Herbalist, Klaus Ferlow, investigates. [more >>]
Cancer is one of the most
feared of diseases, regarded by most as a death sentence.
This is a remarkable interview with Lothar Hirneise,
a expert in effective cancer treatment. [more >>]
Understanding the Corruption of Allopathic Healthcare
If you have not read one of Martin Walker's books, then you probably do not understand the politics of healthcare and how it sacrifices the health of the many for the wealth of the few. Medical policy is now about money, politics and control, and has little to do with health or care. It is about governments and the medical establishment jumping into bed with big business — the pharmaceutical, chemical and processed-food industries — to produce a national "cattle ranch" agenda which brings untold suffering and death to the people. Martin Walker is a health investigator who has been personally threatened many times for his fearless exposés of "healthcare" agendas. His books are only available as e-books because nobody will touch them, such is the state of free speech in Western Democracies. Please visit slingshotpublications.com and zero-risk.org, and consider making a donation to a man fighting for us all on the front line.
Chemotherapy Study shows 2.3% success
- 2006
A recent issue of the Australian Prescriber highlights the dismal success rate of chemotherapy by featuring a study conducted in Australia by two oncologists (Clinical Oncology 2004; 16;549-60) showing that chemotherapy improves survival by only 2.3% in Australia and 2.1% in the US. The two researchers, one of whom is a professor, concluded that "chemotherapy only makes a minor contribution to cancer survival" and that "to justify the continued funding and availability of drugs used in cytotoxic chemotherapy, a rigorous evaluation of the cost-effectiveness and impact on quality of life is urgently required." This is more depressing than Ralph Moss' earlier meta study that showed an overall success rate of 7%. The irony is that the Australian study's methodology was criticised by a leading professor of oncology at Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Professor Michael Boyer, who stated that "if you start… saying how much does chemotherapy add in the people that you might actually use it [on], the numbers start creeping up… to 5 or 6%." So even the staunch defenders of chemo admit that it is one of the most useless treatments around! If an alternative treatment had such a dismal success rate, it would be off the market in a second. Remember, most cancer sufferers don't die from cancer; they die from chemotherapy. [Nexus 06/2006]
The Australian Government
in league with the pharmaceutical industry is doing
everything it can to implement CODEX - the grand
plan to eliminate natural health alternatives to
maximize pharmaceutical profits. [more >>]
The Codex Alimentarius is
the gravest threat to good health and personal freedom
facing us today. Canadian medical science writer,
Helke Ferrie, writes an impassioned plea for us all
to act now before it is too late. [more >>]
The
Aspartame (NutraSweet™) Killer
- 22 Aug 05
Aspartame, or as it is popularly branded NutraSweet™, is an artificial
sweetener that you will find on the ingredients
lists of a huge variety of foods including soft
drinks, sweets, breakfast cereals, calorie-reduced
products and a host of other items. The problem
with it is that the FDA's approval of this sweetener
was always political and not scientific, pushed
through by none other than Donald Rumsfeld, the
CEO of Searle at the time (late 70s - early 80s).
Despite the FDA's own commission panel rejecting
the sweeter on grounds of safety, the FDA
approved it anyway, showing just how corrupt
and unscientific it really is. Since then, evidence
has accumulated that Aspartame/Nutrasweet™
breaks down in the body into extremely toxic
by-products including phenylalanine, DKP, aspartic
acid, methanol, formaldehyde and formic acid.
These toxins can produce a variety of symptoms
that are usually associated with: multiple sclerosis,
Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, fibromyalgia,
arthritis, chronic fatigue syndrome, attentional
deficit disorder, panic disorder, depression,
lupus, diabetes, birth defects, lymphoma, Lyme
disease, hypothyroidism and chemical sensitivity.
It
is estimated that millions have been adversely
affected by it, mostly in the US, and it is only
a matter of time before civil lawsuits will
force this poison off our supermarket shelves.
[The
Ecologist, Sep 05] Update May 06: The European Food Safety Authority has recently stated that a further safety review is unnecessary. This whitewash was somewhat expected as industry and the EU authorities are such intimate bed-fellows. Here are some links that outline the true risk: www.theecologist.co.uk (Must-read article in The Ecologist) www.wnho.net (Best industry-independent Aspartame news) www.dorway.com (A personal Aspartame tragedy) Update Oct 06: Apparently aspartame makes a great ant killer. Leave moistened aspartame out for the troublesome ants and within just two days they will be completely gone. (Mercola)
Richard Oxman interviews
Charles Ortleb, a prominent AIDS campaigner and writer
about his work and his view that orthodox AIDS research
is seriously misguided. [more >>]
As the number of over-nourished
catches up the number of undernourished people in the
world, we need to take a hard look at our modern diets. [more >>]
One day people will look
back with incredulity as how our "civilized" society
could annually murder millions of its citizens for
profit. Marsh investigates orthodox medicine, and
more specifically, orthodox cancer "treatments". [more >>]
Anti-Bacterial
Cleaners Create Superbugs - 03 Aug 05
Anti-bacterial cleaning fluids, washing-up liquids, washing powders, toothpastes,
soaps, deodorants — you name it — now fill our supermarket
shelves. These products have created a big boon in sales for the multinationals
that produce them, and huge amounts are spent on advertising and marketing
to convince us that these anti-bacterial products are best for our health.
This month, The Ecologist has run an interesting piece on anti-bacterial
products and how their widespread use in the home is actually creating
superbugs (strains of MRSA) in the same way that widespread use of antibiotics
is doing in hospitals: these cleaners kill 99% of bacteria, selecting only
the hardiest and most virulent to survive and multiply with no competition
from innocuous bacteria. The result is a selective process that creates
a dangerous problem for the future. In fact, so concerned are some at the
exponential growth in antibiotic cleaners and toiletry products that, in
2000 for example, six Finnish public authorities urged consumers not to
buy them, advice repeated by the German environmental minister in 2001.
So if the label says "anti-bacterial" or "contains Triclosan",
remember that it is really saying that the product is an antibiotic — pure
and simple.
In recent years, the Atkins
low carb diet has become very fashionable. Proponents
of Atkins extol it as the answer to weightloss and
many health concerns. But what is the truth behind
the Atkins diet and is it really healthy? [more >>]
So you have a serious illness.
Perhaps you may even be facing your own demise. At
times like this, it is essential that you not necessarily
reject but challenge the medical model, and perhaps
embrace "mind medicine". [more >>]
Getting healthy can be confusing
because so much of the health information out there
is trying to sell you something. In reality, optimum
health is as simple as following these 12 steps. [more >>]
"The
mission of the Food and Drug Administration is
to ensure that the public is protected from unsafe
food, drugs and other medical products. Daniel
Troy [then Chief Counsel of the FDA] is instead
making it the agency's mission to protect the
drug companies from being held accountable when
their products do serious harm." U.S.
Representative Maurice Hinchey, 2004
Restricting dietary sugar and processed
carbohydrate is as important to health as cutting down
on saturated fats. So those low fat foods and meal
replacements laced with hidden sugars are counter-productive! [more >>]
Stephen Byrnes wrote The Myths
of Vegetarianism in the Townsend Letter in which he
smugly rubbishes vegetarianism. This is a vegetarian's
reponse to that article. [more >>]
On Wednesday 13th March 2002, new
bureaucratic legislation was undemocratically passed
by the European Parliament that will outlaw most of
the food supplements currently available in health
shops. [more >>]
There are two approaches that we
can make to our doctor when we are unwell. The first
sees us assuming the traditional role of the meek patient
whereas the second sees us as a "pain in the arse" survivor. [more >>]
FrankenFood GMO Disease - 4/08
Safety of Wi-Fi / WiMax in doubt - 12/07
A picture of modern health - 11/07
Orthodox Medicine Untested - Nov 2007
Can you spot what is wrong with this picture? - 06/2007
