by Phillip Day

WHEN YOU write a book and enti­tle it Health Wars, you’re prob­a­bly out to make trou­ble. Apart from images of starv­ing peo­ple, can­cer apoc­a­lypses, AIDS-ravaged nations and chicken shock-and-awe, the lan­guage itself con­fronts you. What wars? And what has health got to do with them? And why make the doc­tor on the front so big and scary? And who are you, Phillip Day, I’ve never even heard of you!

Health Wars was first pub­lished in 2000 and cre­ated a storm. How dare a mem­ber of the pub­lic assault the hal­lowed pin­na­cles of med­ical acad­e­mia, etc, etc. Of course, I was by no means the first to level accu­sa­tions of quack­ery and inep­ti­tude against Big Med­i­cine. One doc­tor did tell me that Health Wars man­aged to achieve the req­ui­site level of pub­lic out­rage to gal­vanise the cit­i­zen into doing their own research and real­ize how blind reliance on the med­ical sys­tem could quite lit­er­ally kill them.

By divid­ing the book up into dif­fer­ent wars—for instance, med­ical incom­pe­tence over vac­ci­na­tions; death by doc­tor­ing in can­cer and heart dis­ease— the reader quickly iden­ti­fies the com­mon threads, not only with what is going wrong with cor­po­rate health­care, but also in what the indi­vid­ual can do to pro­tect them­selves and fix most of the prob­lems at home. An ounce of pre­ven­tion, as they say, is worth a pound of cure, but we got lazy.

Like mil­lions of oth­ers I am some­one who loves life and wants to live it for as long as pos­si­ble with all my ducks in a row. Sta­tis­ti­cally, though, I’m not going to make it, at least to that golf course scene. The chances are I’ll have a heart attack, get can­cer, have a stroke. One in four of us will get a men­tal prob­lem, one in six dia­betes, one in three asthma. Eight out of ten are phys­i­cally inac­tive, have high blood pres­sure and are over­weight. I sup­pose that’s why there are ‘health plans’, though the moniker’s decep­tive. No-one seems to plan for their health, only sick­ness, it’s not some­thing we want to dwell on. In an age where the major­ity don’t even put away for their pen­sion, the mis­sion for most of us is sim­ply to have a good life, raise kids, love thy neigh­bour, grow old grace­fully and make it to the bath­room on time. The real­ity for many, how­ever, will be bro­ken mar­riages, bro­ken homes, bro­ken health, bro­ken finances, the first surgery at fifty, addic­tions, pills and potions, and then you lose your mind, the fam­ily wants to put you some­where, and you end up in a home eat­ing Nobby’s Nuts, star­ing at the X-Factor. We’ve come to accept our lot, that bad things hap­pen and peo­ple die. After all, every­one dies of some­thing, right? But you’re not sup­posed to be killed by your doctor.

Twenty-five years ago as an ordi­nary cit­i­zen I became inter­ested in health. Aside from being in pretty poor shape myself (heav­ily over­weight, a smoker, on two dif­fer­ent anti-depressants pre­scribed to me by my doc­tor for a ham­string injury!), some of my fam­ily had lost their lives to the med­ical estab­lish­ment and I wanted to know why. The indus­try I started research­ing was under­stand­ably cagey over any deaths it caused. There’s a trust between doc­tor and patient, one vital to the proper dis­charge of a physician’s duties. To hint for even an instant that med­i­cine itself could be the prob­lem – that doc­tors might be up there with can­cer and heart attack as one of civilization’s most lethal scourges – is to say some­thing about our soci­ety that is so ghastly, most don’t even want to go there. Until it hap­pens to them.

I found good men and women in med­i­cine to be sure, and got to know more and more in many parts of the world as time went by. Doc­tors go into med­i­cine to make a dif­fer­ence, to save lives and give hope, not to find that most med­i­cines don’t do what they say on the tin. Instead of ‘doing no harm to the patient’ (Hip­po­cratic Oath), many doc­tors are both­ered that their train­ing teaches them to harm the patient from baby­hood with vac­ci­na­tions, drugs, bac­te­ria, fungi and viruses, not to men­tion surg­eries and the neglect of food and lifestyle causations.

I found that I was not against med­i­cine. On the con­trary, I believe to this day that the com­ing cen­tury will see tremen­dous break­throughs once com­mon sense and vested inter­ests are con­nected to the oxy­gen. It’s a pre­car­i­ous bal­ance after all, for sci­ence can­not sur­vive with­out money. The inven­tions we enjoy today should be roundly applauded – life would be quite impos­si­ble with­out them. On the other hand, as the Sax­ons said, ‘Where the bat­tle is, there shall the eagles be gath­ered together’. Or in today’s ver­nac­u­lar, ‘Where the sick­ness is, there shall the cor­po­ra­tions be gath­ered together’.

I found encroach­ing greed was plac­ing prof­its over patients with unin­tended con­se­quences. Syn­dromes were being invented. Most drugs were prov­ing an unqual­i­fied fail­ure with dis­ease and worse, there were side-effects, the cost and poten­tial for lit­i­ga­tion. Cur­ing the symp­toms was not the same thing as cur­ing the dis­ease. So, as the years passed, we got more can­cer, more strokes and more heart attacks in spite of the ‘wars’ being declared; in spite of the bright­est and best wan­der­ing the cor­ri­dors of our lead­ing med­ical insti­tu­tions with unlim­ited bud­gets. The news­pa­pers tout ‘break­throughs’. Some­times the cure is worse than the dis­ease. Some­times the cure is the dis­ease. The unwanted con­clu­sion is that we have given our trust to an indus­try which rou­tinely abuses it. In the realm of our ‘health­care sys­tem’, I can­not see any sys­tem at all that is work­ing for a mean­ing­ful longevity in any of its patients. Harsh words? Alas, not harsh enough.

On 25^th Jan­u­ary 2009, the Her­ald Sun in Mel­bourne, Aus­tralia, reported: ‘Chil­dren younger than 4 who are con­sid­ered men­tally dis­turbed are being treated with con­tro­ver­sial elec­tric shock treat­ment.’ Are we OK with electric-shocking our tod­dlers? In the US state of Mary­land, state and county offi­cials have announced that they will send par­ents to jail if they don’t sub­mit their chil­dren to vac­ci­na­tion. Today in many coun­tries, if you refuse cer­tain drugs for your fam­ily, child pro­tec­tion ser­vices can be unleashed. If you refuse chemother­apy for your child on the grounds that it’s poi­son, your child can be removed and force­fully poi­soned to death to pre­serve their human rights. Such irony becomes all the more poignant when one realises it’s all being done with the best pos­si­ble inten­tions. As I’m oft fond of say­ing, you can be sin­cere, and you can be sin­cerely wrong.

Truth is only any good if you act upon it. Both ortho­dox and com­ple­men­tary par­a­digms have much to bring to the table. We have made some great advances in med­i­cine: infant sur­viv­abil­ity at birth, A & E trauma med­i­cine, sur­gi­cal tech­niques, pain man­age­ment, pros­the­sis. Yet two realms remain unqual­i­fied fail­ures: dis­ease and men­tal health. And while Health Wars may out­rage and shock, and while one may form the con­clu­sion at the final page that the mea­sures described in the book ‘make all the sense in the world’, how many will actu­ally act to improve their own circumstances?

In the end it’s up to us. While we’ve been short-changed on ‘health­care’, the odds of liv­ing to a grand old age with all our own mar­bles is squarely in our purview. If I can con­vince you that you’re worth work­ing on, will you do a few sim­ple things to add years to your life? What would another fif­teen years really be worth to you, to your chil­dren, friends and fam­ily? Would you teach them how to qual­ify for the extra mileage also?

In the UK you receive a telegram from the Queen on your hun­dredth birth­day. In 2000, we saw Her Majesty send­ing the telegram to her own mum, the late but ever-mobile Eliz­a­beth the Queen Mother, who tipped the cen­tury to the delight of all. A nice sight and all fine for roy­alty, I say, but what about the great unwashed? What are the chances of my get­ting that telegram for myself? Can humans rou­tinely sur­vive to be a healthy hun­dred in the rap, neon and jet exhaust of the 21^st cen­tury? If so, how do you do it? And why wasn’t I told?

In the age of the Inter­net, we now have the sum total of all human knowl­edge at our fin­ger­tips, warts ‘n all, the first time this has become pos­si­ble. The pur­pose of Health Wars is to assist you in get­ting prop­erly researched and easy-to-understand infor­ma­tion upon which to base your own con­clu­sions and informed deci­sions. It’s cur­rently an embar­rass­ing time for the ‘pow­ers that be’ now the veil of infor­ma­tion secrecy has been whisked aside. It’s tempt­ing to believe that the com­ing years will usher in an era of greater trans­parency, love, friend­ship, light, rain­bows, etc, for all, though if you’ve come to know human nature as I have, you will learn this stuff for your­self with­out the slight­est delay and advise those you love to do likewise.

It’s a war­zone out there.

Take noth­ing for granted. Prove all things.

FURTHER RESOURCES

Health Wars  by Phillip Day

SUMMARY

WAR #1 POPULATION: Health agen­cies are adopt­ing a pol­icy of will­ful igno­rance when it comes to pro­tect­ing the tax­payer. Sick­ness is big busi­ness. Whip­ping up social crises pro­vides gov­ern­ment with the excuse to raise taxes and aggre­gate more power to com­bat sup­posed ‘threats’.

WAR #2 DOCTORS: West­ern med­i­cine is now the third lead­ing cause of death in most coun­tries. If one con­sid­ers that life­sav­ing infor­ma­tion is being delib­er­ately with­held, result­ing in heart dis­ease, can­cer, stroke and dia­betes, West­ern med­i­cine is the lead­ing cause of death. Why is this happening?

WAR #3 THE DOCTOR WITHIN: Advances in mol­e­c­u­lar biol­ogy clearly show that the human body is a designed, error-correcting sys­tem. These dis­cov­er­ies have major impli­ca­tions for pre­ven­tion and cure, and yet are shunned..

WAR #4 MILK: Humans are the only mam­mals on Earth to get weaned off their mother’s milk only to spend the rest of their lives stuck under the udders of a com­pletely dif­fer­ent species. Illog­i­cal quirk or major wrong turn for human health?

WAR #5 MEAT: Humans are omni­vores and so can eat some meat if they wish. The nature, quan­tity and qual­ity of what we’re con­sum­ing, how­ever, has become a major health hazard.

WAR #6 SUGAR: When it comes to iden­ti­fy­ing the most com­mon poi­son we will­ingly use against our­selves – an amaz­ing feat result­ing in mil­lions of deaths world­wide every year – there is no contest.

WAR #7 LIFESTYLE: The pub­lic views lifestyle advice as nan­ny­ing… until they get sick because of their lifestyle. Then they expect to be cured by a med­ical sys­tem not trained in the impli­ca­tions of lifestyle.

WAR #8 THE SUN: Con­sid­er­able efforts have been expended bur­bling the myth into the public’s ears that the sun can kill us. Lit­tle warn­ing has been given over the dan­gers of vit­a­min D defi­ciency as a result of shun­ning the sun.

WAR #9 HEART DISEASE AND STROKE: The med­ical estab­lish­ment is in pos­ses­sion of detailed infor­ma­tion on how to com­bat these scourges with nutri­tional strategies—the only long-term solution—yet chooses to ignore them in favour of drugs and surgery, which do not deal with the rea­son the prob­lems occurred in the first place.

WAR #10 CANCER: We’ve had the cure for can­cer all along, it’s called the immune sys­tem. Nature has a ver­i­ta­ble store­house of immune-boosting and anti-cancer nutri­ents, yet gov­ern­ments not only ignore these sub­stances, they seek to restrict and even remove their avail­abil­ity from the citizen.

WAR #11 WATER, SALT AND FLUORID-ATION: Three wars in one: 1) The delib­er­ate poi­son­ing of the pub­lic water sup­ply with car­cino­genic chem­i­cals. 2) The den­i­gra­tion of water as a cure for com­mon com­plaints and 3) mis­in­form­ing the pub­lic about the need for proper whole salts to main­tain cel­lu­lar health (not sodium chloride!).

WAR #12 THE MENOPAUSE: This chap­ter deals with the vic­tim­i­sa­tion of women using bogus diag­noses, dan­ger­ous drugs, need­less surg­eries and the mar­ket­ing of the menopause as ‘life-threatening’.

WAR #13 VACCINATION: Is vac­cine the­ory valid or has it trag­i­cally back­fired? What of today’s increas­ingly com­mon neu­ro­log­i­cal com­plaints in adults and children?

WAR #14 QUALITY OF FOOD: If we are what we eat and absorb, what are the impli­ca­tions of ingest­ing most of what passes for food on today’s super­mar­ket shelves?

WAR #15 CHEMICALS: We use hun­dreds of for­eign sub­stances every­day in prod­ucts such as sham­poos, tooth­pastes and antiper­spi­rants. We trust that some­one has tested their safety. This chap­ter explains why we should be nervous.

WAR #16 PSYCHIATRY: Every year this pseudo-scientific pro­fes­sion dreams up more fic­ti­tious men­tal ill­nesses to scare the pub­lic with­out a shred of sci­ence to back up the diagnosis.

 “Thanks to your book and other infor­ma­tion, I have suc­cess­fully healed myself of can­cer with nutri­tion and energy heal­ing and have been clear for two years now. I like to offer as much sup­port as I can to the pub­li­ca­tion of pos­i­tive news.” - Roswitha R, Alme­ria, Spain

“Thank you for what you are doing!” — Eva E, Upper Aus­tria, Austria

“I have attended your sem­i­nar in Malta as a Neways dis­trib­u­tor. It was bril­liant and infor­ma­tive, keep it up. My daugh­ter sends hugs and kisses to your wife, Saman­tha. I hope you will come to Malta again.” — Pauline H, Malta

“Phillip, I recently attended one of your sem­i­nars. I really look up to peo­ple who show that much inter­est in oth­ers. Thank you so much for your exper­tise and care. I’m friends with a mar­ried cou­ple. He has leukaemia and she just found out that she has can­cer on her thy­roid. I want to help them some­how… I hope they’ll lis­ten.…” – Cindy B, NSW, Australia

“I want to sup­port truth in med­i­cine.” – (Dr) Niels M, Denmark

“Fan­tas­tic infor­ma­tion sem­i­nar as usual. Phillip is fab. Great sense of humour!” - Annette W, QLD, Australia

“I would like to sup­port every effort to help the unin­formed and sick peo­ple to seek and use non-invasive and less trau­matic meth­ods as means of heal­ing.” – Samuel K. O, Ghana, West Africa

“Absolutely LOVE these won­der­ful videos! Nobody says it like Phillip Day! Thank you! I have watched these videos sev­eral times and am thrilled every time! Phillip Day’s CD “Can­cer, The Winnable War” and his book “Can­cer: Why We’re Still Dying to Know the Truth” were instru­men­tal in my heal­ing from stage 3 breast can­cer almost 7 years ago. I lis­tened and read over and over. I healed com­pletely with­out any chemo and radi­a­tion!  Because of the things I learned about can­cer, I wrote a book which was pub­lished by Tate Pub­lish­ing Co. and will be released next month. I pray God uses my book in oth­ers’ lives the way He used Phillip Day’s book in mine! Bless­ings!!”– Sharon W, Val­ley Cen­ter, Kansas, USA

“Carry on the good work. Please trans­late ALL your mate­r­ial into Ger­man!” – Chris­tine Dorothy K, Germany

“I’ve read many of your books and learned a lot from them. Keep up this very good work. Regards.” – Robert Van Looy, Oud-Turnhout, Belgium

“I admire your goal in attempt­ing to break the monop­oly of drug-orientated dis­ease care and move to the only type of med­i­cine that works — holis­tic health care. Peo­ple need edu­ca­tion, not med­ica­tion.” – Dr Bernard D W, Ali­cante, Spain

“As some­one who barely escaped the med­ical mafia with my life, I try to keep up-to-date with the chang­ing atti­tudes in and towards health­care. Thanks so much for your efforts and I look for­ward to the infor­ma­tion!”- Janet H, Mass­a­chu­setts, USA

“Absolutely amaz­ing ini­tia­tive and so needed in today’s sit­u­a­tion!” — Tommy L, Norway

“GOD bless your work, Phillip!!!!”– Rosie B, East Sus­sex, UK

“This is some of the most use­ful stuff on the Inter­net.”– Amanda P, Swin­don, UK

“I’m a big fan of Phillip Day and I’m glad some­one is try­ing to make a dif­fer­ence to this planet and the way it is being run by greedy phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals. Keep on truck­ing, Phillip, I’m send­ing you as many peo­ple as I can.” – Suzanne C, York­shire, UK

“A great help to me in recov­er­ing from prostate can­cer in 2004. No poi­so­nous after­care needed, and now totally free. At 77 I am look­ing more seri­ously at the raw food diet.” – Val­mond T, Mal­lorca, Spain

“Inter­est­ing web­site. We need all the truth in med­i­cine we can get, thank you so much.” – Joan M, Dublin, Ireland

“My hus­band has mul­ti­ple myeloma and a friend shared that she had breast can­cer and took apri­cot ker­nels. With God’s grace, she was healed. And so was another friend of hers. May God bless you in your endeav­ours!” – Hope M, Isle of Man, UK

“Just watched Food Mat­ters and am inspired! I was raised nat­u­rally and am get­ting back into that mode after years of eat­ing not so great. I am a big alter­na­tive health sup­porter.”- Valerie G, USA

“Hi, let me express many, many thanks to Phillip and the CTM mem­bers for spread­ing the true and ‘Real Evidence-Based Med­i­cine’ treat­ments and approaches. I hope that I can also con­tribute by spread­ing the infor­ma­tion about the ‘new’ Slo­vak trans­la­tion of the book “Can­cer: Why We’re Still Dying to Know the Truth” in my home coun­try. Thanks, Phillip, for writ­ing the book and thanks Damian for the trans­la­tion. Good health for every­body and keep inform­ing the pub­lic! Kind regards from Slo­va­kia.” — Robert H, Slovakia

“Con­grats and well done, Phil Day – thank you for hav­ing the guts to speak the truth. May God bless you always. This is the way we should be liv­ing.” — Mary McD, Co Sligo, Ireland

“My school attended Phillip Day’s lec­ture in Modesto CA in 2004. It is ESSENTIAL! Far too many peo­ple are devel­op­ing cat­a­strophic ill­ness in our world today. We need to offer edu­ca­tion to the gen­eral pop­u­la­tion so they can be restored to opti­mum well­ness and self-empowerment. Phillip’s lec­ture tours, web­site, books and Cam­paign for Truth in Med­i­cine are “just what the doc­tor ordered”. — Jan N, CA, USA