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This page is a diary of health commentary written  by our Nutritionist and Director Anusha Amen-Ra, N.C. as well as others in the field of Holistic health.

• Depression and the Holistic Alternative. by Anusha Amen-Ra, N.C.
• Former President George Bush, Sr. has a hip replacement and Vice President Dick Chaney have a Heart attack are the two related? by Anusha Amen-Ra, N.C.
• Former president Reagan has hip replacement surgery.by Anusha Amen-Ra.N.C.
• Serafem for PMS ? by Anusha Amen-Ra, N.C.
• Persistent Organic Pollutants - What can you do??
• Aspartame: Diet drink anyone? By Nancy Markle
• Is Depression Natural in an Unatural World by John Foster M.D.
• Which direction are you going? by Anusha Amen-Ra, N.C.
• Cow's Milk and Dairy by Dave Rietz
• World without Cancer by Edward G. Griffin

Depression and the Holistic Alternative

Depression has been co-opted by the psychiatric medical profession as an imbalance that should be treated with drugs. There is a holistic alternative. But why use herbs, diet, exercise and communication to deal with depression, rather than your doctor's prescription?

Drugs like Prozac, Xenax, Haldol, Lithium and a a whole host of psychiatric drugs are being prescribed by doctors across the country as a quick antidote and long-term solution to depression, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and other psychiatric problems. But what is the cost?

The first thing that must be understood about using drugs to treat any problem that you have whether physical, mental, emotional is that DRUGS DO NOT ALLOW YOU TO HEAL. Drugs treat the symptoms but do not treat the cause. In dis-ease you have the symptom and you have the cause. Its like taking a drug for a headache. When you do, and the pain goes away, you may think you have solved your problem. But in reality you have only manipulated the symptom; the cause as to why you had the pain in the first place is still there.

We have been led to believe by the psychiatric doctors that depression is a physical-mental illness caused by an imbalance of seratonin levels. Amazingly enough this has never been proven. In fact these drugs are actually spreading an epidemic of long-term brain damage; mental “illnesses” like schizophrenia, depression and anxiety disorder have not been proven to be genetic or even physical in origin. Neuroleptic drugs are chemical lobotomizing agents with no specific therapeutic effect on any symptom or problems. Their main impact is to blunt and subdue the individual, rendering the individual less able to react or to move. Thus they produce a chemical lobotomy and a chemical straitjacket. These drugs are the cause of a plague of brain damage that affects up to half or more of long-term patients. (Peter Breggin, M.D. 1991)

So these drugs cause the very mental imbalances that they are meant to treat. Your body does not have a medical requirement for anything produced by a pharmaceutical company. The American Psychiatric Association - like the American Medical Association - has been fully bought out by the pharmaceutical industry. To take these drugs is to doom yourself to more mental illness. Furthermore, these drugs can cause permanent brain damage. Tardive Dyskinesia and Tardive Dementia is a disease frequently caused by neuroleptics. The term “tardive” means late developing or delayed; “dyskinesia” means abnormal movement. Tardive dyskinesia is a movement disorder that can afflict any of the voluntary muscles, from the eyelids, tongue, larynx, and diaphragm to the neck arms, legs and torso. On rare occasions it can occur after a few weeks or months, but usually it strikes the individual after six months to two years of treatment. Any of the neuroleptics can cause tardive dyskinesia. The total dosage probably affects the likelihood of this happening but the dose relationship is not easily demonstrated and any amount must be considered dangerous. While some symptoms improve or even disappear after removal from the offending mediations, most are cases are permanent. There is no known treatment for tardive dyskinesia. Often the start of this symptom goes unnoticed, because the drugs that cause it also tend to suppress the overt symptoms. Tardive dementia is a complete deterioration of mental faculties. While tardive dyskinesia is a firmly established disease, tardive dementia remains more controversial (although evidence for its existence seems incontrovertible).

So what is the alternative? First of all if you are taking these powerful drugs, do not stop taking them abruptly. Most psychiatric drugs are far more dangerous to take then people realize, but they also can become dangerous when discontinued too abruptly. Most have addictive qualities and can produce withdrawal symptoms that are emotionally and physically distressing and sometimes life threatening. Drugs that can produce withdrawal symptoms include narcoleptics or anti-psychotics, such as Haldol or Thorazine, antidepressants such as Tofanil and Elavil, stimulants such as Ritalin, minor tranquilizers such as Valium and Xanaz, and prescription sedatives or sleeping pills. Stopping psychiatric drugs should usually be done gradually and only with professional guidance.

With professional help, you can find the holistic alternative. Nutrition, herbal alternatives such as St. John's Wort, Kava Kava, Melatonin, Valerian Root, and Ginseng can all be used to support the transition and treatment of someone suffering mental illness. Also exercise, internal cleansing and detoxification must be a part of a holistic program to address one's health needs.

On the spiritual level, depression certainly have its roots in the loss of something or someone that one has relied upon. If you have lost a significant relationship that you have relied upon, you will undoubtedly be depressed. Also it has to do with a lack of a plan for how one can be successful and accomplish their goals. Perhaps on a deeper spiritual level some people don’t truly have an idea of what their spiritual goals are in life, or a plan of how to achieve them. We are made up of many parts. Bringing those parts into alignment with the higher parts of yourself and of our universe is part of what spiritual counseling can do for you.

When you have problems in life you can search for the quick fix that numbs your mind, body and spirit, or you can truly search for the physical, mental and spiritual reasons for why you have the problem. Presenting yourself to your local doctor may be something that you do in your search for truth. But if you find yourself not satisfied with what you have been given, then maybe it is time you continue your search. Don’t give up. You are in a fight to survive and to be successful. One thing is for certain: your body is made perfect and whenever something is happening with it, you should use that as an opportunity to listen to your body and bring your body in alignment with the Higher forces of the universe. Pain on any level is a sign that your body is out of balance with these higher forces. Don’t thwart your body’s efforts to be truly free and to be liberated from the chains that bind you. You can and will be successful. Your commitment to live truth and to be successful is something that you can and should commit yourself to. Better to fight for that and die for your freedom, than to be enslaved by the chains that would bind you.

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George Bush undergoes Hip Replacement Surgery and Vice President Dick Chenney has a heart attack, are the two related in some way????

George Bush undergoes Hip Replacement Surgery. Are the two related in some way????

Vice President-elect Dick Chenney has a heart attack and George Bush Sr. has Hip Replacement surgery.!!! Did anybody hear this news? What is behind George Bush's hip replacement surgery and Dick Chenneys heart attack from a Holistic perspective? Do you have a hip replacement or a heart attack in your future? First of all lets say that any surgery is only a temporary fix of a problem. Its a way of manipulating the symptom without dealing with the cause.

One Day Ex -President Bush presented himself to his doctor complaining of hip pain, similarly Dick Chenney presented himself to his doctors with pain in his chest. The doctors no doubt gave them both something to relieve the pain and no doubt told them that if it got worse then hip replacement/ heart operation ( bypass, angioplasty) was a viable option. While this conclusion was a logical one, it unfortunately is is not holistically logical one. As a result their problems will continue to reoccur as Dick Chennys has already demonstrated by his long term issues with heart disease.

Here in lies the problem. Pain in the hip is caused by bacteria that is feeding off of acid residue that has lodged itself into the hip. The pain in Mr. Dick Chenneys chest is also caused by acid residue that has combined with the blood fats, cholesterol and tryglycerides and has formed plaque on the walls of his arteries creating congestion. . This acid residue was created there by Mr. Bush's and Mr. Chenneys diet and life style choices over many years. With only drugs and surgery as options open to the Medical Doctor, Mr. Bush and Mr. Chenney 's choices were limited.. They both elected to have surgery ( drugs only work so long).

As was stated these choices are logical but not holistically logical. As a result both of them only have a future of continued problems since their surgery only addressed the symptoms and not the cause to why they have the problem in the first place.

Both problems were preventable. If you want to know how you can prevent such likely possibilities for your future please call me today and begin your own Self healing program . A good plan can help you solve the mystery of health and allow you to achieve your goals of a long life free of pain and discomfort. Having lots of money so that you can afford the best doctors in the world may not necessarily buy you good health. Good health is not created by going to doctors but by the diet and life style choices you make everyday and through internally cleansing your body. Unlike the Ex president and the Vice President elect you have more options available to you such as the Internal Makeover, Internal Cleansing Program.
"The only real way to true sustained health is through Internal Cleansing and Detoxification, all other methods are only temporary" Anusha Amen-Ra, N.C.

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Ex-President Reagan has Hip -Replacement Surgery

If you read my last newsletter you will remember that I discussed the Health issues of ex-President George Bush and Vice President Dick Chenny. Well just when I thought it was safe to move off of using politicians as subjects do we have another politician in the news.

This time ex- President Reagan undergoes Hip operation. President Reagan was reported recently to have broken his hip bone and had to have it reconstructed. President Reagan also suffers from Alzheimer's disease and currently can't recognize members of his own family or the day or that he was even President.

As you will recall I linked the health issues of both Bush and Chenney saying they where both caused by an overly acid condition. I would now link ex-President Reagans hip problems with the other two. Why? Hip fractures are a common ailment of the elderly. This is because of precisely the same reason that the two other politicians found themselves in. As we age , if we are in an acid condition, the acid will in addition to causing heart problems also cause for us to loose an inordinate amount of calcium and bone minerals. Why ? Because calcium is an alkalizing mineral. Your body is always trying to heal itself from the imbalance that we put it in. So when you put yourself in an overly acid condition the body will take calcium out of your bones and teeth and put it in soft tissues such as breasts and heart . The body is trying to bring itself back in balance.

If you are in an acid condition you will leach calcium out of bones and teeth regardless of how much calcium you take as a supplement. Meat eating men and especially Caucasian meat eating women have the highest amount of bone loss!!!
So this is the likely result. Most people think this type of bone lost is a natural part of aging. ( After all ex-President Reagan is in his 80' or 90's.) I say it is not a part of aging but a part of an imbalanced life and diet style. It doesn't have to end this way. The other day this guy came in to see me and he was this old timer who looked like he had been through a lot in his life ( His body looked completely worn out). During our consultation he seemed reluctant to put the time energy and money into healing himself. After our consultation I walked with him to the door. I looked across the street at his car which he proudly pointed out to me.. His car looked immaculate. It was an old Cadillac. It looked like it was brand new!!! He had obviously put a lot of time energy and money into this car. It was clear to me that he valued his car more then he did his own life. Unfortunately for him, his car will probably be around alot longer then he will. The state of your health and body is all in what you do to take care of it. Put your efforts into YOU not a material object. You are more valuable then any material thing!!
Start your own self -healing program today . "The only real way to true sustained health is through Internal Cleansing and Detoxification. All other methods are temporary." Anusha Amen-Ra, N.C.

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Serafem for PMS?

I have been hearing allot about the use of a new drug called Serafem (Fluoxetine) to treat symptoms of PMS. So maybe this will be a good topic to focus on for this month. First let me say that Serafem is not really a "new" drug but is actually an old drug in disguise. Serafem is actually Prozac only with a different name. The Pharmaceutical Industry is trying to find every known human condition and give you a drug for it. I will discuss depression at another time. For now don't believe the hype. Serafem / ( Prozac) is a stimulant. And what goes up must come down. So you can expect for you to experience depression as well as other conflicting mood swings when you try to reduce the amount your are taking. In other words Prozac causes the very thing it is meant to alleviate. The person winds up painting themselves into a corner and becoming dependant on the drug. Prozac was approved by the FDA only after a 5 to 6 week trial period.

In other words if you take it for longer then that they don't know what could happen. Its not meant to be taken long term. And while this solution may be logically correct, we know that it is not Holistically logical. Antidepressants such as this have been known to cause permanent damage such as tardive dyskinesia, which is involuntary muscle movements.. If you are having severe symptoms of PMS there is a solution. Remember, your body was made perfectly. When it is having problems of dis-ease , it is a result of something being out of balance. Taking a drug for it will manipulate the symptoms but it wont get to the cause . Further you will now have to deal with the toxicity of the drug itself. Severe PMS can be dealt with naturally. Call me and ask me how. I can give you some natural solutions to bringing your hormonal system into balance. For instance there is a company that will do a saliva test for your hormone levels and then formulate a topical cream which can help balance those specific hormones that are out of balance.

There are other alternatives approaches. Your menstrual cycle is a time that your body brings your uterus back from an acid condition to a more alkaline ph, so that the egg can be implanted. Pain such as this during your cycle has to do with being to overly acid and your hormones being out of balance. If your pineal gland is calcified over then you will likely not produce the right hormonal balance in your ovaries or your adrenal glands. This is why one approach would be to alkaline your body while assisting it to remove its toxic overload. Trust that your body was made perfectly by the Creator. Trust that your body is doing exactly what it is suppose to do. You may want to explore these solutions and others before going down the dead end path of using drugs. Your body does not have a deficiency for any drug that is made at a pharmaceutical company. For other commentary on this subject please click the link bel

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Persistent Organic Pollutants - What can you do??

Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP's) are toxic substances composed of organic chemical compounds and mixtures. POP's are products and by-products of human industry, which are persistent in the environment. Which means they are substances that resist photolytic, chemical and biological degradation. They enter the air, travel long distances on air currents and then return to earth. POPs generally have low water solubility and high lipid (fat) solubility, which means they tend to bioaccumulate in fatty tissues of living organisms. These substances magnify by factors of many thousands as they move up the food chain. POPs are also highly toxic, having the potential to injure human health and the environment at very low concentrations.

We are living in a chemical soup! Every person alive today carries approximately 250 chemicals within her or his body, chemicals that did not exist prior to 1945. This is referred to as the "body burden", and is our common legacy from the process of development and industrialization. About 100,000 chemicals have entered into the market since 1945, and it is estimated that 75,000 of them remain in commercial use today. A startling fact about these chemicals is that most remain untested for their safety in humans and other species. Only about 1.5% to 3% (about 1,200 to 500 chemicals) have been tested for carcinogenicity. Moreover, chemical testing tends to study one chemical at a time, whereas real-life exposure is, in fact, coming from a broad spectrum of chemicals that may interact or have additive effects. Most chemical testing is based on the idea that, while damage will occur after a certain level of exposure has been reached, exposure below these levels will cause no harm. These studies often start at elevated levels close to the point where cancer or DNA damage is expected, and the measurements are done on adult laboratory animals. Yet the most recent scientific evidence indicates that fetal contamination can occur at very low levels below those levels which affect adults, and that the timing of exposure may also play a critical role in the possible effects.

International Negotiations to Phase out POP's. During 1996 and 1997, intergovernmental organizations, including the Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety (IFCS), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) agreed to create an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) to establish terms and a global, legally binding convention that seeks to protect health and the environment from harm caused by POPs. The committee's first meeting was June 29, 1998 in Montreal, Canada. Negotiators were asked to mandate action on twelve POPs. In addition they were asked to develop criteria and a procedure to identify additional POPs as candidates for future global action.

The Dirty Dozen!
The twelve POPs under scrutiny are:
Dioxins, furans, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), DDT, chlordane, heptachlor, toxaphene, hexachlorobenzene, aldrin, dieldrin, endrin, and mirex.

In the meantime , what can you do now to protect yourself:? First you should begin to eat low on the food chain. Eating high on the food chain ( animal products), exposes you to more of these chemicals because they get into the fat tissues and are held there. The lower on the food chain you eat the less exposure to toxicity. Second, reduce exposure to things bleached white. That includes tampons and other products that have been bleached white. Third you can begin a program to remove the build up in your own fat tissues and which have been lodged in your liver cells. Doing a an extensive liver cleanse is one thing and taking routing saunas would also be something to incorporate in your program. Our liver is responsible for cleansing out our blood stream.  Our blood stream is responsible for cleansing out the tissues in our bodies where toxins store themselves.  This is especially true for our fat cells.

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Aspartame, Diet drink anyone? By Nancy Markle

I have spent several days lecturing at the World Environmental Conference on Aspartame marketed as NutraSweet, Equal and Spoonful. In the keynote address by the EPA, they announced that there was an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus, and they did not understand what toxin was causing this to be rampant across the United States. I explained that I was there to lecture on exactly that subject. When the temperature of Aspartame exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in Aspartame converts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic acidosis. (Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire ants). The methanol toxicity mimics multiple sclerosis thus peoples were being diagnosed with having multiple sclerosis in error. The multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, where methanol toxicity is. In the case of systemic lupus, we are finding it has become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis, especially with diet Coke and diet Pepsi drinkers. Also, with methanol toxicity, the victims usually drink three to four12 oz. cans of them per day, some even more. In the cases of systemic lupus, which is triggered by Aspartame, the victim usually does not know that the aspartame is the culprit. The victim continues its use irritating the lupus to such a degree, that sometimes it becomes life threatening. When we get people off the aspartame, those with systemic lupus usually become symptomatic.

Unfortunately, we cannot reverse this disease. On the other hand, in the case of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, (when in reality, the disease is methanol toxicity), most of the symptoms disappear. We have seen cases where their vision has returned and even their hearing has returned. This also applies to cases of Tinnitus. During a lecture I said "If you are using Aspartame (NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc.) and you suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms, spasms, shooting pains, numbness in your legs, cramps, vertigo, dizziness, headaches, Tinnitus, joint pain, depression, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss, you probably have Aspartame disease." People were jumping up during the lecture saying, "I've go this, is it reversible?" It is rampant. Some of the speakers at my lecture even were suffering from these symptoms. In one lecture attended by the Ambassador of Uganda, he told us that their sugar industry is adding aspartame. He continued by saying that one of the industry leader's sons could no longer walk -- due in part by product usage. We have a very serious problem. Even a stranger came up to Dr.Espisto (one of my speakers) and myself and said, "Could you tell me why so many people seem to be coming down with MS?" During a visit to a hospice, a nurse said that six of her friends, who were heavy Diet Coke addicts, had all been diagnosed with MS. This is beyond coincidence. Here is the problem. There were Congressional Hearings when aspartame was included in 100 different products.

Since this initial hearing, there have been two subsequent hearings,
but to no avail. Nothing has been done. The drug and chemical lobbies have very deep pockets. Now there are over 5,000 products containing this chemical, and the PATENT HAS EXPIRED. At the time of this first hearing, people were going blind. The methanol in the aspartame converts to formaldehyde in the retina of the eye. Formaldehyde is grouped in the same class of drugs as cyanide and arsenic - DEADLY POISONS.

Unfortunately, it just takes longer to quietly kill, but it is killing people and causing all kinds of neurological problems. Aspartame changes the brain's chemistry. It is the reason for severe seizures. This drug changes the dopamine level in the brain. Imagine what this drug does to patients suffering from Parkinson's disease. This drug also causes birth defects. There is absolutely no reason to take this product. It is NOT A DIET PRODUCT. The Congressional record said, "It makes you crave carbo-hydrates and will make you FAT". Dr. Roberts stated that when he got patients off aspartame, their average weight loss was 19 pounds per person. The formaldehyde stores in the fat cells, particularly in the hips and thighs. Aspartame is especially deadly for diabetics.
All physicians know what wood alcohol will do to a diabetic. We find that physicians believe that they have patients with retinopathy, when in fact; it is caused by the aspartame. The aspartame keeps the blood sugar level out of control, causing many patients to go into a coma. Unfortunately, many have died. People were telling us at the Conference of the American College of Physicians, that they had relatives that switched from saccharin to an aspartame product and how that relative had eventually gone into a coma. Their physicians could not get the blood sugar levels under control. Thus, the patients suffered acute memory loss and eventually coma and death.

Memory loss is due to the fact that aspartic acid and phenylalanine are neurotoxins without the other amino acids found in protein. Thus it goes past the blood brain barrier and deteriorates the neurons of the brain. Dr. Russell Blaylock, neurosurgeon, said, "The ingredients stimulate the neurons of the brain to death, causing brain damage of varying degrees. Dr. Blaylock has written a book entitled, EXVIROTOXINS: The Taste That Kills", (Health Press 800-643-2665). Dr. H. J. Roberts, diabetic specialist and world expert on aspartame poisoning has also written a book entitled, "Defense against Alzheimer's Disease", (800-814-9800). Dr. Roberts tells how aspartame poisoning is escalating Alzheimer's disease and indeed it is. As the hospice nurse told me, women are being admitted at 30 years of age with Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Blaylock and Dr. Roberts will be writing a position paper with some case histories and will post it on the Internet. According to the Conference of the American College of Physicians, "We are talking about a plague of neurological diseases caused by this deadly poison." Dr. Roberts realized what was happening when aspartame was first marketed. He said, "His diabetic patients presented memory loss, confusion, and severe vision loss."
At the Conference of the American College of Physicians, doctors admitted that they did not know. They had wondered why seizures were rampant (the phenylaline in aspartame breaks down the seizures threshold and depletes serotonin, which causes manic depression, panic attacks, rage and violence), Just before the Conference, I received a fax from Norway, asking for a possible antidote for this poison because they are experiencing so many problems in their country. This "poison " is now available in 90 PLUS countries worldwide. Fortunately, we had speakers and ambassadors at the Conference from different nations who have pledged their help. We ask that you help too. Print this article out and warn everyone you know. Take anything that contains aspartame back to the store. Take the "NO ASPARTAME TEST" and send us your case history. I assure you that MONSANTO, the creator of aspartame, knows how deadly it is. They fund the American Diabetes Association, American Dietetic Association, Congress, and the Conference of the American College of
Physicians. The New York Times, on November 15, 1996, ran an article on how the American Dietetic Association takes money from the food industry to endorse their products. Therefore, they cannot criticize any additives or tell about their link to MONSANTO. How bad is this? We told a mother who had a child on NutraSweet to get off the product. The child was having grand mal seizures every day. The mother called her physician, who called the ADA, who told the doctor not to take the child off the NutraSweet. We are still trying to convince the mother that the aspartame is causing the seizures. Every time we get someone off of aspartame, the seizures stop. If the baby dies, you know whose fault it is, and what we are up against. There are 92 documented symptoms of aspartame from coma to death. The majority of them are all neurological because the aspartame destroys the nervous system. Aspartame Disease is partially the cause to what is behind some of the mystery of the Desert Storm health problems.

The burning tongue and other problems discussed in over 60 cases can be directly related to the consumption of an aspartame product. Several thousand pallets of diet drinks were shipped to the Desert Storm troops. Diet drinks sat in the 120 degree F Arabian sun for weeks at a time on pallets. The service men and women drank them all day long. All of their symptoms are identical to aspartame poisoning. Dr. Roberts says consuming aspartame at the time of conception can cause birth defects. The phenylalanine concentrates in the placenta, causing mental retardation, according to Dr. Louis Elsas, Pediatrician Professor -- genetics at Emory University in his testimony before Congress. In the original lab tests, animals developed brain tumors (phenylalinine breaks down into DXP, a brain tumor agent). When Dr. Espisto was lecturing on aspartame, one physician in the audience, a neurosurgeon, said, "When they remove brain tumors, they have found high levels of Aspartame in them. Stevia, a sweet food, NOT AN ADDITIVE, which helps in the metabolism of sugar, which would be ideal for Diabetics, has now been approved as a dietary supplement by the FDA. For years, the FDA has outlawed this sweet food because of their loyalty to MONSANTO. If it says, SUGAR FREE on the label, DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT.

Senator Howard Metzenbaum wrote a bill that would have warned all infants, pregnant mothers and children of the dangers of aspartame. The bill would have also instituted independent studies on the problems existing in the population (seizures, changes in brain chemistry, changes in neurological and behavioral symptoms). It was killed by the powerful drug and chemical lobbies, letting loose the hounds of disease and death on an unsuspecting public. Since the Conference of American College of
Physicians, we hope to have the help of some world leaders. Again, please help us too. There are a lot of people out there who must be warned, please let them know this information.

You might want to print it out and hand it out or fax it to people who are not on line.

Fran & Cal Fox calfranfox@juno.com or
ccfmf@juno.com

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Is Depression Natural in an Unnatural World by John Foster M.D.

Illness begins with a loss of concern for ourselves, long before symptoms of disease appear. The first manifestation is loss of self concern and loss of concern for others. Bad nutrition erodes our capacity to see clearly and our ability to act in our own interest. The environment is fouled and this is no secret. Why do we have a whole generation that is in need of Prozac? What happened to our ability to produce serotonin ( the neurotransmitter that confers mellow moods)? Why are 19 percent of school children on Ritalin? I will give one concrete example to illustrate this issue.

One of the most common agricultural chemicals in use is the family of substances called hydrazines. They are in jet fuels and pesticides and growth retardants. They are sprayed on all non-organic potatoes in this country. Ever wonder how potatoes can sit in the bins of grocery stores and there isn't a single eye bud or sign of a spouting potatoes? They are covered with hydrazine, which inhibits the capacity to sprout and prolongs their shelf life. Hydrazine also blocks the action of vitamin B-6 ( pyridoxine), an essential cofactor in thousands of biochemical reactions in the human body.

How do we make serotonin in our brains? It begins with the amino acid tryptophan, which is the least abundant amino acid in protein and the most vulnerable to cooking damage. First , we must eat good quality protein and digest and absorb it well before it is transported to the brain, where it is converted to 5-hydoxy tryptophan and then to serotonin by enzymes. Each enzyme step requires vitamin B-6. There is enough hydrazine in one bag of potato chips or one dose of MacDonald's french fries to negate all the vitamin B-6 in your body. Hence: No serotonin! And instead : mood disorder, depression and loss of the will to search out these facts and to avooid such toxins and to care for oneself. When you don't feel well, you are depressed. Health is about food, air and water. Seeking out safe, organic foods and finding healthy water and air are the beginning, long before trying to substitue St. John's Wort for Prozac in this equation of [treating depression].

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Which Direction are you going?
by Anusha Amen-Ra, N. C.

Life <<<<<<<<<<<< >>>>>>>>>>>> Death

Have you found yourself going in the wrong direction in life? To go in the right direction you will need a very good plan. Contact our office for a plan for how you can achieve your highest level of health. You too can become younger. Call to start your own self healing program today.

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COW'S MILK AND DAIRY (approx 2650 words)
By Dave Rietz, WEBmaster www.notmilk.com

Yes... mother natures "perfect food" ... for a calf!
[Until it's weaned]

Everything you know about cow's milk and dairy is probably part of a
Dairy industry MYTH! Cow's milk is an unhealthy fluid from diseased
animals that has a wide range of dangerous and disease-causing
substances that have a cumulative negative effect on all who consume it.

Basic Contents:

*ALL* cow's milk has 59 active hormones, scores of allergens, fat and
cholesterol. Most cow's milk has measurable quantities of herbicides,
pesticides, dioxin's (up to 2,200 times the safe levels), up to 52
powerful antibiotics, blood, pus, feces, bacteria and viruses. (Cow's
milk can have traces of anything the cow ate... including such things as
radioactive fallout from nuke testing ... (the 50's strontium-90
problem).

The leading causes of death are:

http://webapp.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/leadcaus.html (1998)

Rank Total Description

1 724,859 Heart Disease (think fats/cholesterol: meat,dairy)
2 541,532 Malignant Neoplasms (cancer: think toxins/milk/dairy)
2a 250,000 Medical system (drugs/etc. Think ignorance/incompetence)
3 158,448 Cerebro-vascular (think meat milk and dairy)
4 112,584 Bronchitis Emphysema Asthma (think toxins/milk/dairy)
5 97,835 Unintentional Inj & Adv. Effects
6 91,871 Pneumonia & Influenza (think weak immune systems and mucus)
7 64,751 Diabetes (think milk/dairy)
7a 40,000+ highway slaughter (men, women and children)
8 30,575 Suicide (think behavioral problems)
9 26,182 Nephritis (Bright's disease: inflammation of the kidneys)
10 25,192 Liver Disease (think alcohol and other toxins)

(2a and 7a were added for completeness)

(note: Number 13 on the CDC list is -18,272 Homicide & Legal
Intervention-. It is curious that the CDC would readily list law
inforcement and homicides... and not the 250,000 deaths caused by
the medical system!)

**** Cancer "Fuel Cell":

Of those 59 hormones one is a powerful GROWTH hormone called Insulin-
like Growth Factor ONE (IGF-1). By a freak of nature it is identical
between cows and humans. Consider this hormone to be a "fuel cell" for
any cancer... (the medical world says IGF-1 is a key factor in the rapid
growth and proliferation of breast, prostate and colon cancers, and we
suspect that most likely it will be found to promote ALL cancers).

IGF-1 is a normal part of ALL milk... the newborn is SUPPOSED to grow
quickly! What makes the 50% of obese American consumers think they
need MORE growth? Consumers don't think anything about it because they
do not have a clue to the problem... nor do most of our doctors.

(See http://www.notmilk.com/igf1time.txt for a time line)

**** Quantity

Each bite of hard cheese has TEN TIMES whatever was in that sip of
milk... because it takes ten pounds of milk to make one pound of cheese.
Each bite of ice cream has 12 times ... and every swipe of butter 21
times whatever is contained in the fat molecules in a sip of milk.

**** Monsanto and rbGH (Posilac)

Monsanto Chemical Co., maker of fine poisons such as DDT, agent
orange, Roundup and more... spent around half a billion dollars
inventing a shot to inject into cows... to force a cow to produce MORE
milk (for an already glutted taxpayer subsidized market).

Unfortunately, they created *FIVE* errors in their Frankenstein
Posilac (rbGH) shot that direly affected all test animals... but that
important report (Richard, Odaglia & Deslex, 1989) has been hidden from
everyone under Clinton's Trade Secrets act. The Canadians read enough
of this report (before it was stolen) to reject rbGH for their country.

Monsanto's Posilac creates additional IGF-1 in milk: up to 80% more.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) insists that IGF-1 is destroyed
in the stomach. If that were true, the FDA has proven that
breast feeding cannot work. Common sense says their "finding" is
ridiculous because this growth factor DOES make the baby calf grow
(rapidly, as mother natured intended). Visit the Dairy Education Board
at http://www.notmilk.com/deb/100399.html to review a DAIRY study that
confirms what the FDA has lied about this for years.

**** IGF-1 increases

This study involved two groups. One group consuming 12 ounces of
milk a day and the other consuming the USDA recommended allowance of 24
ounces (three cups). This report notes that the participants consuming
12 ounces more milk per day... HAD A 10% RISE IN IGF-1 IN THEIR BLOOD
SERUM! Now, consider that PER DAY, from ALL sources, the typical
milk/dairy consumer ingests approximately 39% of daily diet from
dairy... and that 10% increase becomes the "tip of the iceberg". We
have NO idea of the non-dairy versus full-dairy difference but
considering cancer rates... it has to be significant.

**** Fat

Whole milk 49% of the calories are from fat.
"2%" milk 35% of the calories are from fat.
Cheddar cheese 74% of the calories are from fat.
Butter 100% of the calories are from fat.

Most folks suspect that butter is all fat. Most folks have no concept
of the just how much fat is in the rest of milk and dairy. Perhaps the
54% of Americans who are obese need to comprehend that milk, ice cream,
cheeses, yogurts, and all the OTHER products that use milk derivatives
(casein, whey, lactose, colostrum) are most likely a significant cause
for their weight and health problem.

**** Calcium

Calcium? Where do the COWS get calcium for their big bones? Yes...
from plants! The calcium they consume from plants has a large amount of
magnesium... necessary for the body to absorb and USE the calcium.

The calcium in cow's milk is basically useless because it has
insufficient magnesium content (those nations with the highest amount of
milk/dairy consumption also have the highest rates of osteoporosis.
Proof? How about a controlled study of 78,000 nurses over a period of
12 years? OK?

Read more about it at:

http://www.notmilk.com/deb/030799.html PCRM article on the 78,000 nurse
study
http://www.notmilk.com/deb/092098.html CALCIUM AND BONE DISEASE
http://www.notmilk.com/badbones.html WHO GETS BONE DISEASE?
http://www.notmilk.com/bonehead.txt (most recent) CRIPPLING
BONEHEADS
http://www.notmilk.com/calcium/index.html Consolidated info

Cows milk has three times the calcium as does human breast milk. No
matter, neither are very usable because in order to be absorbed and used
their MUST be an equal quantity of MAGNESIUM (as exists in the greens
that cows eat to get all the calcium they need for their big bones).
Milk has only enough magnesium to absorb around 11% (33mg per cup) of
calcium.

Per the USDA 8 ounces (one cup) of cows milk contains:

Calcium, Ca mg 291.336
Magnesium, Mg mg 32.794

The USDA recommends 1200mg of calcium per day. The USDA recommended
three cups of milk a day only have 900mg of calcium. Some argue that
only 1/3 of the magnesium is necessary. Mother nature seems to suggest
it should be one to one. If the ratio for proper absorption were 1/3
magnesium to one calcium then no more than 300mg of that 900mg of
calcium is usable. If, in fact, it is a one to one ratio... only
98.38mg of calcium is usable.

**** Protein

Milk can be thought of as "liquid meat" because of its high protein
content which, in concert with other proteins, may actually LEACH
calcium from the body. Countries that consume high protein diets (meat,
milk and dairy) have the highest rates of osteoporosis.

**** The wholesome protein myth:

MILK: 87% of milk is water. That makes it VERY expensive water.

Broken down into its basic groups... WHOLE MILK is:

WATER FAT CASEIN OTHER OTHER
PROTEIN
87% 3.25% 4% 1% 4.75

(note: that is 3.25% "milkfat" which includes the 87% water.)

80% of the protein in milk is casein. Casein is a powerful binder... a
polymer used to make plastics... and a glue that is better used to make
sturdy furniture or hold beer bottle labels in place. It is in
thousands of processed foods as a binder... as "something" caseinate.

Casein is a powerful allergen... a histamine that creates lots of
mucus. The only medicine in Olympic athlete Flo-Jo's body was Benedryl,
a power antihistamine she took to combat her last meal... pizza. See
http://www.notmilk.com/deb/092198.html,
http://www.notmilk.com/deb/111598.html and
http://www.notmilk.com/deb/112398.html for the whole story.

**** Bacteria

Cow's milk is allowed to have feces in it. This is a major source for
bacteria. Milk is typically pasteurized more than once before it gets
to your table... each time for only 15 seconds at 162 degrees
Fahrenheit.

To sanitize water one is told to boil it (212 degrees F) for several
minutes. That is a tremendous disparity, isn't it!

Keep in mind that at room temperature the number of bacteria in milk
DOUBLE around every 20 minutes. No wonder milk turns rotten very
quickly.

**** PUS

ONE cubic centimeter (cc) of commercial cow's milk is allowed to have
up to 750,000 somatic cells (common name is "PUS") and 20,000 live
bacteria. before it is kept off the market.

That amounts to a whopping 20 million life squiggly bacteria and up to
750 MILLION pus cells per liter (bit more than a quart).

1 cup = 236.5882cc 177,441,150 pus cells ~ 4,731,600 bacteria
24 oz (3 glasses) 532,323,450 pus cells ~ 14,220,000 bacteria
(the "recommended" daily intake)

The EU and the Canadians allow for a less "tasty" 400,000,000 pus cells per liter.

Typically these levels are lower... but they COULD reach these levels
andstill get to YOUR table.

**** Cholesterol

The cholesterol content of those three glasses of milk is equal to
what one would get from 53 slices of bacon. Do you know of any doctor
who recommends that much bacon per day?

**** Kosher

Is cow's milk and dairy "Kosher"? Consider this:

"D-3 always is derived from an animal. The sunlight reaction that
converts 7-dehydrocholesterol to vitamin D-3 is a 'pure' chemical
reaction that occurs in your skin in certain cells."

"The provitamin known as 7-dehydrocholesterol is extracted and isolated
from the skins of mammals and purified." (Marian Herbert of the Vitamin
D Workshop U of C)

Vitamin D-3 can come from four different sources:

Pig skin, sheep skin, raw fish liver, and pig brains. Most of the time,
Vitamin D-3 is extracted from pig skin and sold to dairy processors.

Short answer to "is milk kosher" - probably not.

**** Other "stuff":

Fat and cholesterol. Lots of it. Per the dairy influenced USDA
"food pyramid" all milk, dairy and meats should represent no more than
8% of the diet. Statistically, by volume of sales in a nation of 281
million Americans, it works out to almost 40% of the diet for MILK AND
DAIRY.. without the meat.

The milk of each of the over 4,700 mammals on earth is formulated
specifically for that species. There are special lactoferrins and
immunoglobulins (cow specific immunizing stuff) that in humans serve as
allergens.

**** Leukemia

Sixty Percent of America's dairy cows have leukemia virus.

**** Diabetes

The protein lactalbumin, has been identified as a key factor in
diabetes (and a major reason for NOT giving cows milk to infants).

**** Crohn's Disease

Mycobacterium paratuberculosis causes a bovine disease called
"Johne's."

Cows diagnosed with Johne's Disease have diarrhea, and heavy fecal
shedding of bacteria. This bacteria becomes cultured in milk, and is not
destroyed by pasteurization. Occasionally, the milk-borne bacteria will
begin to grow in the human host, and irritable bowel syndrome and
Crohn's results.

**** Mad Cow Disease

There may also be prions (pronounced PREons) in the milk and meat.
This is crystalline substance that acts like a virus... with an
incubation period of from 5 to 30 years. The end result is MAD COW
DISEASE!

**** Homogenization

Large fat molecules cannot get through the intestinal wall into the
bloodstream. The cream no longer rises... because homogenization breaks
up those large molecules into small ones that DO get into the
bloodstream! This becomes an expressway for any fat-borne toxins (lead,
dioxin's, etc.) into your (otherwise) most protected organs.

**** Cumulative effects:

How does this impact humans who consume cow's milk and dairy? Obesity
(over 50% of Americans and rising), heart disease, cancer, allergies,
digestive problems, diabetes, asthma, desensitization to antibiotics,
behavioral problems, and the constant ingestion of dioxin's, herbicides,
pesticides (and anything else the cow eats that is not good for any
critter), that winds up getting stored in HUMAN fat... is not healthy by
any measure.

Those who resist believing the truth should understand that MOST of
the world's population CANNOT tolerate the lactose in cow's milk. Up to
95% of the black population, around 53% of the Hispanics, etc.) So
much for cow's milk being "natures perfect food" for humans! Mother
nature knows better.

Common sense question: Where was this massive "milk is a must"
before refrigeration, pasteurization and mass transportation? Back when
cows gave only 1-4 pounds a day it was quickly made into BUTTER and
cheese! Now that those same cows have been tweaked and shot-up with
Posilac to produce up to 55 or more pounds of milk per day... almost all
year long... it is suddenly (after many thousands of years) a daily
"staple". NOT!

**** SOME ANSWERED QUESTIONS:

Q: What is WHEY?

Whey results when the FAT and CASEIN are removed from milk.
In making cheese, the curds become the cheese.

Whey's main components are bovine serum albumin and lactalbumin.
There are other hormones contained in whey.

Q: What happens to the: 59 hormones Scores of allergens herbicides, pesticides, dioxin's
up to 52 antibiotics when made into cheese?

A. Everything gets concentrated. when made into butter?

A. The allergens get lost: but the dioxin's and
pesticides and antibiotics remain in the fat. in the digestive system?

Steroid hormones survive, as do dioxin's and antibiotics.
In homogenized milk, protein hormones survive... depending upon the
gastric pH, some protein hormones in cheese survive, but not all...
eleven steroid hormones survive. and... what happens next?

Eventually, everything is broken down, but not before the chemical
messengers (hormones) "deliver their message."

Each of those hormones and proteins acts differently and has different
rates of degradation. BOTTOM LINE... they all survive to a certain
degree... and the effects are cumulative.

Other health trashing substances in cow's milk:

whey: Blood proteins. Bovine serum lactalbumen has been identified as a
trigger for diabetes and other autoimmune diseases.

lactose: Two sugars. Glucose and galactose. Galactose has been
indentified as a trigger for glaucoma. There are several columns that
cover lactose (covering galactose and galactosemia):

http://www.notmilk.com/deb/090599.txt Dr. Gordon: Heart Disease
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/629 Lactose is dangerous
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/453 Ben's heart
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/396 Femal Cancers
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/378 Lactose intolerance

colostrum (cow's first milk): Loaded with hormones, particularly IGF-I.

Answers courtesy of the NOTMILKMAN. (notmilkman@notmilk.com)

MILK: What a surprise!

(read what a NOTMILK guest book respondent said:
http://www.notmilk.com/gbooktalk.txt)

*************

For more of the WHOLE truth... visit:

For all past newsletters visit with a wealth of information:
http://www.notmilk.com/deb/column.html

and for the Daily Squirts of NOTMILK wisdom...
http://www.notmilk.com/deb/squirts.html

Diabetics please read http://www.notmilk.com/deb/011099.html

Read up on "mad cow disease"? Visit
http://www.milkgate.com for what may well be mankind's NEXT plague.

http://www.notmilk.com/milkinfo.txt my 2400 word overview (this file)
http://www.notmilk.com/wholemilk.txt USDA facts, and what they omitted
http://www.notmilk.com/52reasons.txt A reason for every week of the
year
http://www.notmilk.com/a-z.txt Extensive reasons by ailment/topic

Quote:

"It's not natural for humans to drink cow's milk. Humans milk is for
humans. Cow's milk is for calves. You have no more need of cow's milk
than you do rats milk, horses milk or elephant's milk. Cow's milk is a
high fat fluid exquisitely designed to turn a 65 lb baby calf into a 400
lb cow. That's what cow's milk is for!" Dr Michael Klaper MD

***** PLEASE... PASS THIS INFO AROUND TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW! *****

***************************

Other bad news substances:

http://www.dorway.com aspartame (Equal/Nutrasweet) This fake
sweetener is not an effective diet aid and it was NEVER proven to be
safe. Think 92 FDA complied symptoms (including death see
http://www.dorway.com/badnews.html).

http://www.truthinlabeling.org MSG this flavor enhancer kissing-cousin
mind-blower to aspartame has 30 different names. Aspartame was used in
the testing placebos BEFORE it was legal (see
http://www.dorway.com/msg.txt).

Dave Rietz, dorietz@awod.com
5-30-2001

This file: http://www.notmilk.com/milkinfo.txt

World Without Cancer
by Edward G. Griffin

Excerpts

Let us take a look at the results and benefits of the so-called cures obtained through
surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy.

Chemo Statistics

The following appeared in the Los Angeles Times on August 18, 1973, under the
heading: CANCER "CURE" LAETRILE

Helene Brown, FDA spokesperson, ... said:

... there are now 10 kinds of cancer which can be cured or controlled by
chemotherapy-the treatment of disease by drugs.

Less than a month later, while speaking at an ACS national conference on
cancer nursing, Mrs. Brown said flatly: "Present medical knowledge
makes it possible to cure seventy percent of. cancers, if they are detected
early."

Spokesmen for the American Cancer Society never tire of perpetuating the myth of
"proven cures." But they seldom look quite so foolish in the eyes of those who know
anything about true survival statistics as they do when they speak of cures by
chemotherapy.

We briefly have viewed the miserable results obtained by orthodox surgery and
radiation. However, the record of so-called anti-cancer drugs is even worse. The
primary reason for this is that most of them currently in use are highly poisonous, not
just to cancer but to the rest of the body as well. Generally they are more deadly to
healthy tissue than they are to the malignant cell.

All substances can be toxic if taken in sufficient quantity. This is true of aspirin, sugar,
Laetrile, or even water. But, unlike those, the anti-cancer drugs are poisonous, not as a
result of an overdose or as a side-effect, but as a primary effect. In other words, their
poisonous nature is not tolerated merely as a necessary price to pay in order to achieve
some desired effect, it is the desired effect.

These chemicals are selected because they are capable of differentiating between types
of cells and, consequently, of poisoning some types more than others. But don't jump
to the conclusion that they differentiate between cancer and non-cancer cells, killing
only the cancer cells, because they do not.

The cellular poisons used in orthodox cancer therapy today cannot distinguish between
cancer and non-cancer cells. They act instead to differentiate between cells that are
fast-growing and those that are slow-growing or not growing at all. Cells that are
actively dividing are the targets. Consequently, they kill, not only the cancer cells that
are dividing, but also a multitude of normal cells all over the body that also are caught in
the act of dividing.

Theoretically, those cancers that are dividing more rapidly than normal cells will be
killed before the patient is, but it is nip and tuck all the way. In the case of a cancer that
is dividing at the same rate or even slower than normal cells, there isn't even a
theoretical chance of success.

In either event, poisoning the system is the objective of these drugs, and the resulting
pain and illness often is a torment worse than the disease itself. The toxins catch the
blood cells in the act of dividing and cause blood poisoning. The gastrointestinal system
is thrown into convulsion causing nausea, diarrhea, loss of appetite, cramps, and
progressive weakness. Hair cells are fast-growing, so the hair falls out during treatment.
Reproductive organs are affected causing sterility. The brain becomes fatigued.
Eyesight and hearing are impaired. Every conceivable function is disrupted with such
agony for the patient that many of them elect to die of the cancer rather than to
continue treatment.

It is ironic that the personnel who administer these drugs to cancer patients take great
precautions to be sure they themselves are not exposed to them. The Handbook of
Cancer Chemotherapy, a standard reference for medical personnel, offers this warning:

The potential risks involved in handling cytotoxic agents have become a
concern for health care workers. The literature reports various symptoms
such as eye, membrane, and skin irritation, as well as dizziness, nausea,
and headache experienced by health care workers not using safe handling
precautions. In addition, increased concerns regarding the mutagenesis
and teratogenesis [deformed babies] continue to be investigated. Many
chemotherapy agents, the alkylating agents in particular, are known to be
carcinogenic [cancer -causing] in therapeutic doses. (Roland T. Skeel,
M.D., and Neil A. Lachant, M.D., Handbook of Cancer Chemotherapy;
Fourth Edition (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1995), p.677.)

Because these drugs are so dangerous, the Chemotherapy Handbook lists sixteen
OSHA safety procedures for medical personnel who work around them. They include
wearing disposable masks and gowns, eye goggles, and double latex gloves. The
procedure for disposing needles and other equipment used with these drugs is
regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency under the category of "hazardous
waste." Yet, these same substances are injected directly into the bloodstream of
hapless cancer patients supposedly to cure their cancer!

Most of these drugs are described as radiomimetic, which means they mimic or
produce the same effect as radiation. Consequently, they also suppress the immune
system, and that is one of the reasons they help spread the cancer to other areas. But
whereas X-rays usually are directed at only one or two locations, these chemicals do
their deadly work on every cell in the body As Dr. John Richardson has pointed out:

Both radiation therapy and attempts to "poison out" result in a profound
hostile in-imunosuppression that greatly increases the susceptibility to
metastasis. How irrational it would be to attempt to treat cancer
immunologically and/or physiologically, and at the same time administer
immunosuppressants in the form of radiation of any kind, methotrexate,
5-FU, Cytoxin, or similarly useless and dangerous general cellular
poisons. All of these modalities, as we know, have been used to depress
the rejection phenomena associated with organ transplantation. The entire
physiological objective in rational cancer therapy is to increase the
rejection phenomena. (Open letter to interested doctors, Nov., 1972;
Griffin, Private Papers, op. cit.)

The view that toxic "anti-cancer" drugs usually accomplish just the opposite of their
intent is not restricted to the advocates of Laetrile. It is a fact of life (or shall we say
death?) that has become widely acknowledged even by those who use these drugs. Dr.
John Trelford, for instance, of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Ohio
State University Hospital has said:

At the present time, chemotherapy of gynecological tumors does not
appear to have increased life expectancy except in sporadic cases.... The
problem of blind chemotherapy means not only a loss of the effect of the
drugs, but also a lowering of the patient's resistance to the cancer cells
owing to the toxicity of these agents. ("A Discussion of the Results of
Chemotherapylogical Cancer and the Host's Immune Response," Sixth
National Cancer Conference proceedings, op. cit.)

Dr. Trelford is not alone in his observation. A report from the Southern Research
Institute, dated April 13, 1972, based upon research conducted for the National
Cancer Institute, indicated that most of the accepted drugs in the American Cancer
Society's "proven cure~~ category produced cancer in laboratory animals that
previously had been healthy! (NCI research contract PH-43-68-.998. Information
contained in letter from Dean Burk to Congressman Lou Frey, Jr., May 30,1972;
Griffin, Private Papers, op. cit., p. 5.)

In a courageous letter to Dr. Frank Rauscher, his boss at the National Cancer Institute,
Dr. Dean Burk condemned the Institute's policy of continuing to endorse these drugs
when everyone knew that they caused cancer. He argued:

Ironically, virtually all of the chemotherapeutic anti-cancer agents now
approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use or testing in
human cancer patients are (1) highly or variously toxic at applied dosages;
(2) markedly immunosuppressive, that is, destructive of the patient's
native resistance to a variety of diseases, including cancer; and (3) usually
highly carcinogenic [cancer causing].... These now well established facts
have been reported in numerous publications from the National Cancer
Institute itself, as well as from throughout the United States and, indeed,
the world. Furthermore, what has just been said of the FDA-approved
anti-cancer chemotherapeutic drugs is true, though perhaps less
conspicuously, of radiological and surgical treatments of human cancer....

In your answer to my discussion on March 19, you readily acknowledged
that the FDA-approved anti-cancer drugs were indeed toxic,
immunosuppressive, and carcinogenic, as indicated. But then, even in the
face of the evidence, including your own White House statement of May
5, 1972, all pointing to the pitifully small effectiveness of such drugs, you
went on to say quite paradoxically it seems to me, "I think the Cancer
Chemotherapy program is one of the best program components that the
NCI has ever had."... One may ask, p