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New KOS Articles
A CLINICAL TRIAL
by Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez, MD
New Spring Press
New York; 2010
As the keynote speaker at Whole Life Expo 2010, immunologist Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez will conduct a workshop on his renowned cancer therapy, entitled: “Alternative Medicine Takes on Cancer – And Wins.” Over the past decade, this cancer therapy appears to have so enraged the medical establishment, the pharmaceutical industry, and the regulatory system with its success, especially with the worst cancers (pancreatic and ovarian), that a gargantuan effort has been made to derail the formal clinical trial intended to examine this therapy. A Clinical Trial, his new book on that collusion between the highest levels of research and government, will be launched at the Expo on the weekend of November 26.
GMO UPDATES
Public Protests Increase as GMOs and
Biotech Wreak Havoc on Food Supply
Vitality Magazine July 2010
by Shiv Chopra
In the U.S., people spend proportionately the least amount of their earnings on food. However, the incidence of food-borne disease (FBD) there is the highest in the world. The closest example of another country in this regard is its neighbour and largest trading partner – Canada.
TOXIC DRINKING WATER
How Fluoridation is Endangering Public Health in
Favour of Government and Corporate Interests
Vitality Magazine October 2010
by Aliss Terpstra
It is destructive to democracy and human rights when any government agency claims to have the authority to cause harm to our health with a toxic substance, denies the harm, denies the toxicity, and then says the harm and toxicity are justifiable.
The Ethics of Compliance –
the moral cost of saying “yes”
Vitality Magazine, September 2010
By Shawn Buckley
I recently participated on a panel at a Toronto health show with Michael Schmidt, the farmer who has stood up for our right to have access to raw milk. He said that we have to collectively start saying “No” to bureaucrats trying to take away our freedoms. I think he has the key to health freedom: unless we all individually get involved, there will be no health freedom for anybody.
THE RETURN OF BILL C-6
Why It Must Be Stopped – Again
by HELKE FERRIE
Vitality, June 2010
Last spring a Canadian court heard a case on the death of two babies killed by faulty playpen accessories. During the trial, Health Canada (responsible for regulating the safety of food, drugs, consumer goods, and hazardous products) admitted to the court that it “cannot effectively protect Canadians from dangerous products because the government r harm and toxicity are justifiable
Are Humans an Endangered Species?
Vitality February 2007
By Helke Ferrie
In the fall of 1999 I attended a conference in
Asbestos -
Canada's
Politics of Death
By Helke Ferrie
Vitality
March 2009
"No man is an island ... any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."
John Donne 1572 -1631
Arsenic
WAR IN HEAVEN
Helping to Save God’s Island
Vitality July 2002
In May of this year there was a War in Heaven. It was a short war and it was won with a flourish. One of God’s own islands was in great danger of an attack by the neurotoxic poisons copper, cadmium, and arsenic.
Asthma Epidemic
Asthma Rates Continue To Rise as Mainstream Medicine Offers Chemical “Cures” Worse Than The Disease
Vitality January 2001
If you would rather avoid drugs with deadly side-effects and limited efficacy and prefer to leave your genes unmodified, explore the other treatment path which has a high chance of leading to recovery - environmental medicine.
Bills C-51 and C-52
By Helke Ferrie
Vitality Magazine June 2008
"You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency,
sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
Joseph Welch, chief attorney for the US Army to Senator McCarthy at the Un-American Activities hearings, June 9, 1954
DO WE WANT THIS?
On April 8 the Harper government introduced bill C-51 as an amendment to the Food and Drugs Act. If passed into law, Canadians would no longer have the freedom to choose between pharmaceutical drugs and natural health products. The two categories we now have, namely drugs and natural health products, would be merged into “therapeutic products” and thereby become subject to toxicity testing and efficacy trials exactly the same as now required for artificial pharmaceutical drugs.
THE BATTLE AGAINST Bill C-6
By Shaun Buckley
Vitality September 2009
Introduction by Helke Ferrie
“The numbers on the Bills have changed, but whether the Prime Ministers are Liberal or Conservative, the message remains unchanged. Bills C-27 and C-28 of 2004 became C-51 and C-52 in 2008, and now we have C-6.
BIG PHARMA UPDATE
By Helke Ferrie
Vitality May 2009
“No doubt, one day our children’s children will learn in school that in the early part of the twenty-first century tens of thousands of people died every year after taking unnecessary drugs … They will learn that there were no effective laws to protect people from risky drugs … When will we stop killing the innocent with blockbuster drugs?”
From Terence H. Young, MP (Conservative) for Oakville, Ontario: www.drugsafety.com
Death by Prescription – A Father Takes on his Daughter’s Killer – The Multi-Billion-Dollar Pharmaceutical Industry, Key Porter, 2009
Biotech Backlash
Scientists and Consumers Retaliate
Worldwide Against GE Foods
Vitality July 2001
Pesticide resistant superweeds, resulting from GE plants hybridizing with natural ones (something the industry swore could not happen), are devastating Canada’s prairie provinces and have started to invade Ontario and New Brunswick.
- New Perspectives in the War on Cancer
Vitality Sept 1999
In 1971, U.S. President Richard Nixon declared war on cancer.
- The Cancer Industry
Vitality Nov 2000
In California, it was forbidden by law to treat cancer by any other method except cut, burn and poison (surgery, radiation and chemotherapy) until July of this year, when the law was repealed due to overwhelming public pressure.
- Cancer Treatment Controversy
Vitality June 2002
Whether your diagnosis is terrible and confirmed, or uncertain and possibly false-positive — you do not need to be an oncologist to make an informed choice. Cancer is an intelligible process that requires eyes wide open and totally focused attention.
- Autism - Causes Known and Cures Possible
Vitality May 2003
Some thirty years ago we had a foster child who was profoundly autistic. She came to us on an emergency basis from an orphanage. Her body was covered in scars that had been made by cigarettes.
- A Primer On Kids' Health
Vitality Dec. 2002/Jan. 2003
The disciples came unto Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” And Jesus called a little child unto him and set him in the midst of them, and said ….”whoso offends one of these little ones….
- On Children
Vitality Dec. 2003
At Christmas time we celebrate the birth of a Divine Child - who never grows up. If he did, the cycle of creation and the pageant of evolution would end.
A CLINICAL TRIAL
by Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez, MD
New Spring Press
New York; 2010
As the keynote speaker at Whole Life Expo 2010, immunologist Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez will conduct a workshop on his renowned cancer therapy, entitled: “Alternative Medicine Takes on Cancer – And Wins.” Over the past decade, this cancer therapy appears to have so enraged the medical establishment, the pharmaceutical industry, and the regulatory system with its success, especially with the worst cancers (pancreatic and ovarian), that a gargantuan effort has been made to derail the formal clinical trial intended to examine this therapy. A Clinical Trial, his new book on that collusion between the highest levels of research and government, will be launched at the Expo on the weekend of November 26.
CODEX Update
By Helke Ferrie
Vitality October 2005
What do airplanes, pharmaceutical drugs and Codex Alimentarius have in common? Answer: a black box. When an airplane crashes, its black box, retrieved from the wreckage, contains the record of events up to the moment of the crash and enables analysts to determine the cause of the tragedy. The US Federal Drug Agency (FDA) “blackboxes” drugs when post-marketing experience shows they killed a lot of people and frequently produces potentially fatal side effects; doctors are informed accordingly in the US and Canada. When consulting the CPS (Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties), updated annually on all current drugs, you will see literally a black box under such drugs with warnings printed inside.
CODEX
Natural Health Products at Risk
The following article informs you about the efforts being made to stop Health Canada from joining the world-wide trend to make natural health products unavailable and to remove the freedom of choice from the individual in matters of preventive health care.
ON CODEX
Vitality Magazine February 2005
By Helke Ferrie
It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.
Robert Houghwout Jackson,
Chief Judge, War-Crimes Tribunal,
If the following information were a horror movie, we could all sit back with our popcorn and enjoy it. Unfortunately, this is not fiction - and if you don’t do something about it, this nightmare will become waking reality in
CSPO (College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario)
The Right to Good Medicine
Vitality April 2003
It is the fate of every Old Boys’ Club to be forced to acknowledge changing realities, eventually. One of these is the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO), the medical regulatory body that controls the licenses of 40% of Canada’s doctors.
DETOX
DETOX OR DIE
Vitality Magazine Oct 2002
Dr. Sherry Rogers is coming to town. Rise out of your heavy metal-induced depression, take your pesticide-mediated anxiety seriously, and declare war on whatever ails you by attending the November Health Expo.
Detoxification and Hair Analysis
Vitality June 2005 issue
By Helke Ferrie
Ten years ago, I embarked on my own road to recovery from a near-fatal neurological disorder caused by pesticide poisoning from two decades of exposure to DDT in
Denying Lyme is A Crime
By Helke Ferrie
Vitality February 2009
"The physician's challenge is the curing of disease, educating the people in the laws of health, and preventing the spread of plagues and pestilence."
Sir William Osler (1849-1919)
Doctor Comments on “Myths”
Caledon Citizen,
Dr. Chopra
On Health Canada
ALIVE March 2000
Senator Noel Kinsella initiated public hearings in Ottawa on December 7, 1999, to ascertain if the Health Protection Branch (HPB) is guilty of "contempt of parliament." In a democracy, such as ours struggles to be, that means "contempt of the Canadian people" and may carry a jail term. The investigation focuses on a reprimand and temporary job suspension meted out in 1999 to drug evaluator Dr. Shiv Chopra. Thanks to Drs. S. Chopra, M. Haydon, and their colleagues (and despite their superiors), Canada's milk and beef is contains no BGH.
Dr. S. Epstien
Epstein on Cancer
ALIVE June 1999
"We have so much information on cancer which we are not using, that I frankly wouldn't give a damn if we didn't do any more research for the next 50 years! If we put all that research money into prevention instead, we could actually win the war on cancer!"
Dr. Doris Rapp
By Helke Ferrie
Vitality, November 2005
Angels walk upon the earth amongst us. They brandish flaming swords against injustice and protect the vulnerable; they fearlessly hammer home Truth because they love humanity. You don’t want to miss meeting one of those..
Dr. Rogers
Dr. Sherry Rogers – A Doctor for All Reasons
Vitality November 2002
“When I had chemical sensitivity, I felt as though I had joined the disease-of-the-month club. I was actually afraid to answer people when they asked me how I was, because I couldn’t recall which symptoms they might be referring to.
Drugs
Stoned by Perscription
Vitality, October 2002
Imagine the media informing you that a jumbo has gone down, killing all on board. Imagine being informed of such an event every single day of the year – year after year for four decades. That’s about 140,000 people a year.
Drug Safety
Lunch in Modor
Vitality Magazine July 2002
On March 4 and 5, a conference at Sunnybrook Estates allowed me to peek into the world of Big Pharma. My media pass to the Canadian Forum on Pharmaceutical Marketing stated: “Hear how the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies are modernizing their global branding, internet marketing and competitive intelligence techniques to improve shareholder value.”
Eco-Summit
Eco-Summit 2000 Report
Vitality July/August 2000
By Helke Ferrie
This first ever gathering of politicians, doctors, scientists and activists revealed shocking truths about Canada’s shady dealings with the pesticide industry
The Ethics of Compliance –
the moral cost of saying “yes”
Vitality Magazine, September 2010
By Shawn Buckley
I recently participated on a panel at a Toronto health show with Michael Schmidt, the farmer who has stood up for our right to have access to raw milk. He said that we have to collectively start saying “No” to bureaucrats trying to take away our freedoms. I think he has the key to health freedom: unless we all individually get involved, there will be no health freedom for anybody.
European Union Leading the Way in Eco-friendly Economics
by Helke Ferrie
Vitality Magazine, December 2007
The ancient Chinese believed that a cosmic force, the Will of Heaven, controlled the rise and fall of their imperial dynasties. As soon as an emperor failed to act in accord with the laws of nature, also called the Tao, the Mandate of Heaven passed to a contender who founded a new dynasty. For the ancient Greek
Exposure
Environmental Links To Breast Cancer
This video was conceived in response to the growing public debate about the implications of our contaminated world on the health of women.
FMLAC
Who is in Charge of Modern Medicine?
Vitality Sept 2002
The International Conference of Medical Regulators took place in Toronto June 15-18, and those charged with maintaining medical standards throughout the world attended in large numbers.
GAIA'S LAST STAND
Climate Change is Everybody’s Business
By Helke Ferrie
Vitality magazine, May 2006
“Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees . . .” Revelations 7:3
When I was a child, the Earth was incomprehensibly huge, solid and eternal. Now it seems as fragile as a Christmas ornament. Within a hundred years most life forms and human civilization may be completely gone, as if they had never existed at all. As I write this, I cannot believe I am actually doing so.
GMO UPDATES
Public Protests Increase as GMOs and
Biotech Wreak Havoc on Food Supply
Vitality Magazine July 2010
by Shiv Chopra
In the U.S., people spend proportionately the least amount of their earnings on food. However, the incidence of food-borne disease (FBD) there is the highest in the world. The closest example of another country in this regard is its neighbour and largest trading partner – Canada.
Book Review
By Helke Ferrie
Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health
Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods
by Jeffrey M. Smith, Yes! Books, 2007, $ 31.95
It has often been said, that one needs a chemistry degree these days to know what foods to buy, and truly the best advice I can give to all, when entering the toxic waste dumps that we call supermarkets, is this: “Don’t buy anything that contains substances you can’t pronounce.”
Government Hijacked by Industry
Vitality September 2005
By Helke Ferrie
Before initiating some really nasty legislation, first find some pretext to fire those civil servants who are likely to object to it as pre-meditated murder of the Canadian people, then tiptoe around parliament calling it a minor “modernization” of the Health Canada Act, hope that no MP wakes up, and warn your corporate friends to put their army of lobbyists on high alert.
GMOs/Organics
By Helke Ferrie
Vitality July/August 2009
“There’s a crack in everything,
That’s how the light gets in.”
- From “Anthem” by Leonard Cohen
In May, the food labeling committee of the international food standards authority, Codex, had its annual meeting - this time in
Health Canada
Health Canada Sells Us Out
Vitality March 2004
The blizzard that descended on central Ontario on the night of January 27th caused zero visibility, and so the course of the 401 was guesswork. With very few cars along that 500 km stretch on the road on the road to Ottawa, it was only the noise my tires made on the corrugated strip of pavement flanking the right shoulder that enabled me to know I was on the road. Thus, it took me over ten hours to make it to Ottawa, twice the usual time.
But my destination was worth risking life and limb for – a national symposium on Health Canada’s proposed changes to our health protection legislation, hosted by the Canadian Health Coalition.
Hippocrates in the Land of Oz
“There are no magic bullets.
But miracles occur daily—if we accept illness as a teacher.
The first doctor to be consulted is the one living in our hearts.
Trusting that inner physician’s advice is a political act of liberation for yourself and others.”
Helke Ferrie
Download and read the first chapter of KOS Publishing's newest book Hippocrates in the Land of Oz. Click here to download the first chapter.
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How Organic Agriculture May Save Planet Earth
Vitality July/August 2005
By Helke Ferrie
“Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.”
Cree Indian Prophecy
“We should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food. Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible.”
Monsanto director, in The Ecologist, May 2005
“What kind of world will we leave to our great-great-grandchildren? And on what basis will they judge us?”
G. Miller,
HRT
The HRT Scandal
Synthetic hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has hit the fan. No amount of spin doctoring will be able to minimize the catastrophic effect the truth is having on victims (women), perpetrators (doctors) and manufacturers (drug companies). The post-mortem on synthetic HRT shows that the exponential increase in breast cancer over the past three decades is not another thing we can blame on mother and her bad genes
Indoctrinated Doctors
Tough Questions About Modern Medical Education
By Helke Ferrie
Vitality October 2006
Becoming a doctor takes many years. They learn an awful lot. But just exactly what do they learn? And who decides what they are supposed to know? Any discussion of medical education starts with Dr. William Osler, who originally set the standard. In fact, McGill University is now trying to re-introduce an Osler-based program “to make doctors more humane” (Medical Post, Oct. 18, 2005). Dr. Osler’s 1892 textbook, Principles and Practice of Medicine, trained doctors throughout the world until 1950, at which time Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, now in it’s 16th edition, replaced it. Sir William Osler is generally acknowledged to have been one of the greatest doctors in history.
THE INTELLIGENT REVOLUTION
How Citizens, Scientists, and Even Politicians are Saying No to Healthcare Fraud
BY HELKE FERRIE
Vitality Magazine April 2010
“He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back – that’s an earthquake.”
Death of a Salesman (1949) by Arthur Miller
Saying No! is a social responsibility none of us may safely ignore. Heroes reveal the fact of oppression and demand opposition; their example helps us to build courage, but in the end each one of us must act personally.
Investing in Life
Vitality May 2005
By Helke Ferrie
A few years ago, during our annual RRSP investment review, a chance question revealed that we had unknowingly been putting money into one of Canada’s worst environmental and social disasters. At the same time, we had been donating monthly to the Sierra Legal Defense Fund, Council of Canadians, and Greenpeace to help them fight this very same project. We immediately withdrew our money, even though the returns had been good. The advisor for self-employed professionals (who often have self-administered RRSPs) suggested as an excellent alternative investing in biotech and pharmaceuticals. Our old age was to be financed either by helping to wreck one of earth’s vulnerable eco-systems, or by investing in the deadliest and most criminal industry on the planet, next to arms.
Manitoba Passed Health Freedom Legislation
Striaghtgoods June 2005 issue
By Helke Ferrie
On
MCS
Recognizing Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
Vitality October 2003
It is said, that when you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. For those whose lives have been devastated by Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and who have been hanging on to that knot for quite some time now, this determination is finally paying off. It appears, that with regard to MCS, Canada is beginning to live up to its reputation of striving for a just society. I am reporting on developments which I have been part of since April.
May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month
By Helke Ferrie
Vitality Magazine May 2010
It is preposterous, but Canada fell through that infamous rabbit hole. Thousands of Canadians, whose numbers are growing annually, are now at the mercy of the policies of our medical Wonderland, where things have become “curiouser and curiouser”, as
On Animal Health:
March issue of Vitality Magazine
By Helke Ferrie
It is more than a decade ago now that I embarked on that steep learning curve that leads out of the morass of pharmaceutical propaganda into medicine that is curative and truly scientific, and attended my first medical conference. This was in
Organic Food
- Biotech Backlash
Scientists and Consumers Retaliate
Worldwide Against GE Foods
Vitality July 2001
Pesticide resistant superweeds, resulting from GE plants hybridizing with natural ones (something the industry swore could not happen), are devastating Canada’s prairie provinces and have started to invade Ontario and New Brunswick.
- How Organic Agriculture May Save Planet Earth
Vitality July/August 2005
By Helke Ferrie
“Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.”
Cree Indian Prophecy
“We should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food. Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible.”
Monsanto director, in The Ecologist, May 2005
“What kind of world will we leave to our great-great-grandchildren? And on what basis will they judge us?”
G. Miller,
- Make Mine Organic
The Marketplace Continues to Resist GMO Foods, as Consumers Embrace the Organic Movement
Vitality May 2004
"Necessity is the excuse of every tyranny," observed the 18th century British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, when he failed to persuade Mad King George to ease up on the economic repression of the American colonies, so they successfully revolted.
- Organic Food
GMO and Organic Farming Conferences
Jan/Feb. 2001
Vitality June 2001
The timing is astonishing. The Royal Society of Canada published its witheringly critical independent review of Canada's biotechnology policies in late January.
- Organics
On Organic Food
Vitality July 2002
An emperor who went crazy started World War I. World War II was the project of a democratically elected chancellor who also went crazy and proclaimed himself Fuehrer. Both took the world on a ride to hell and back again. Now we are in the midst of World War III, and this time the kings of biotechnology with their mad scientists and greedy CEOs are in the grip of so grand a megalomania, it makes Hitler look merely frightening and Emperor Wilhelm II looks like a bully in a carnival suit gone out of hand.
Percy Schmeiser:
Schmeiser vs. Monsanto
Vitality July/August 2004
God and the Supreme Court work in mysterious ways. They don’t follow a straight line, but somehow justice is slowly achieved, and they always offer great new opportunities for the doggedly determined. And so it is – and will be - with
Postcard
Postcard from the Road Less Travelled
Vitality Feb. 2004
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth ….
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
Robert Frost 1916
Frost’s famous poem is cited usually in support of decisions made in opposition to a prevailing worldview and by people who stood their ground against the pressure of conventional wisdom. But this great poem also has the power to illuminate the very darkest corners of the human heart where decisions were made to travel roads once less traveled and which became highways of misery and death for untold numbers of people.
Quackbusters
The Quackbusters
Vitality May 2002
My first encounter with Quackbusters was on November 10,1998, when a public debate was sponsored by the American College of Toxicology in Orlando, Florida. The speakers on one side were Albert Donnay and Grace Ziem, both with Johns Hopkins medical school and experts on multiple chemical sensitivity.
REFLECTIONS ON 2005
By Helke Ferrie
Vitality December 2005/January 2006
“We are only undefeated. Because we have gone on trying.”
T.S. Eliot, Four Quartetts
“Never, never, never give up.”
Winston Churchill
Pour yourself an organic eggnog, curl up in a comfy easy chair that hopefully does not outgas nasty chemicals, and consider these glad tidings for all! With all that bad news, we tend to lose sight of the fact that Peace, Truth and Justice are eternal processes that will never be extinguished. As for the mess the world is in – “What else is new?” ask Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, the Old Testament prophets, and the sages of
By Helke Ferrie
Vitality October 2009
“…what on earth are we imposing on the people of Canada with this kind of totalitarian tactic that is being endorsed and spread through this legislation into the tiniest corners of our lives? It even gives the minister … the ability to take the word of a foreign government on which to base decisions in Canada!”
Senator Elaine McCoy, during Senate Debate
on Bill C-6, September 16, 2009
THE RETURN OF BILL C-6
Why It Must Be Stopped – Again
by HELKE FERRIE
Vitality, June 2010
Last spring a Canadian court heard a case on the death of two babies killed by faulty playpen accessories. During the trial, Health Canada (responsible for regulating the safety of food, drugs, consumer goods, and hazardous products) admitted to the court that it “cannot effectively protect Canadians from dangerous products because the government relies on an informal system for coroners and medical officials to report injuries and deaths,” as reported on April 28 in The Ottawa Citizen
Science
Seperating the Wheat From the Chaff
Vitality April 2002
The most frequently asked question put to me by my readers is: “How can one tell the difference between fact and lies in medicine?” Knowing how to identify reliable information about therapies is vital to your health. By not reading the fine print, today’s health care consumers can get killed in the supermarket of modern medicine. Illness is a growth industry: bypass surgery costs US $ 10 billion annually. The six largest pharmaceutical companies are worth US $ 500 billion.
Sandra Steingraber
An Ecologists View of Cancer
ALIVE Magazine October 1999
by Helke Ferrie
Sandra Steingraber, author of the highly influential book on cancer and our environment, Living Downstream, is a biologist and cancer survivor. Her research for this landmark book earned her appointments to the US presidential task force on cancer prevention and to Cornell University
Sickness for Beginners
By Helke Ferrie
Vitality February 2008
- Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882)
Everyone will sooner or later consult a doctor. That encounter may save your life dramatically in emergency medicine, or lead you into a living hell for a very long time and probably kill you if chronic disease and cancer are involved. For the latter, modern medicine offers drugs derived from mind-numbingly complex synthetic chemistry, which are purposely designed to control symptoms and ensure loyal “consumers” until death - usually from the side effects, one of which is chemically induced nutritional deficiency. Indeed, package inserts clearly state “this drug does not cure”. The word cure has become a four-letter word in
Book Review - Slow Death By Rubber Duck – How The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health
After having read Shawn Buckley’s analysis of Ottawa’s bill C-6 in this issue, go to the next book store and pick up a copy of this book. Buckley’s deconstruction of C-6 shows it to be a low-brow legislative crowd-control measure, aimed at intelligent citizens, which buys plenty more time for the toxic chemical industry to continue making a killing in more than one sense.
SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER
Dr. Shiv Chopra, Health Canada scientist for four decades, speaks about vaccines and food and drug safety
By Helke Ferrie
Vitality April 2008
“From the right to know and the duty to
inquire flows the obligation to act.”
Sandra Steingraber
modern medicine.
BOOK REVIEW published in Vitality, December 2005 and Medical Veritas, spring 2006
By Helke Ferrie
Selling Sickness: How the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies are turning us all into patients by R. Moynihan & A. Cassels, Nation Books, 2005, ISBN I-56025-697-4.
A documentary film version is available through Paradigm Pictures.
According to Greek mythology, a girl named Pandora became curious about the contents of a mysterious box; she opened it a crack and out rushed all the diseases now plaguing humanity. Horrified, she slammed the lid shut, trapping Hope at the bottom. Within the past few years, intrepid researchers have begun to open that box to let out Hope. But, without Truth, Hope is little more than the desperation that inspires buying lottery tickets. Today, the chances of regaining one’s health through most standard medicine are about as good as winning the jackpot. Until all the truth is out about the corruption of medicine, hope has no power.
Taking Back the Planet and Our Health
By Helke Ferrie
Vitality, November 2007
“…Some of us were miraculously presented
Each with a goose that laid a golden egg.
Myself, I killed the cackling thing and ate it.
Alas, many and many of the other recipients
Died of gold-dust poisoning.”
Muriel Spark
Almost everything that is known to nourish life or heal disease has become yet another golden-egg-laying goose. The gold dust from their eggs is a poison more addictive and more fatal than crack cocaine or booze and is responsible not only for Global Warming, but especially for the cancer and chronic disease industry.
The Secrets of the Heart
By Helke Ferrie
Vitality Magazine August/September 2006
The heart is not merely a sophisticated pump. In an Egyptian text from three thousand years ago, The Instructions of Amenemope, the heart is described as the source of thought and the seat of the “Universal Lord, the pilot of the ship of human life.” The very word “heart” meant “intelligence” as well as “mind” and the Egyptians believed that one’s conscience arose from the heart which the Book of the Dead states is a person’s “own god”. All of these metaphors are now supported by medical science.
THE WORLD WITHOUT US
By Helke Ferrie
Vitality Magazine May 2008
“Not only the reason of millennia – the madness of
millennia, too, breaks out in us…we are still fighting,
step by step, with that giant Chance. Truly, the Earth
shall yet become a house of healing!”
F. Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, 1885
I am always amazed by the fact that so many people think that humanity is a cancer on the Earth, that the planet would be better off without us, and that it wouldn’t be a great loss if we become extinct. Well, I absolutely disagree. I sincerely wish all of us well for many more million years to come. I have no more given up on the human race than I have given up on myself, and if humanity became extinct, I think it would be a tragedy of cosmic proportions. Had I been confronted with that cynical Mr. Smith in The Matrix, who found humanity disgusting because “you are like viruses” that destroy everything, I would have told him that virology is a very interesting science and that he should look into it to improve his mood. I would have also told him that humans, unlike viruses, reflect on their behavior, which causes them infinite grief and joy – viruses haven’t a clue about either
Thought for Food
By Helke Ferrie
The root of the word “religion” is the Latin religiere, meaning “careful consideration”. Since humans are thoughtful as well as greedy, this overview of biotechnology and organics is complex, because good thinking sometimes sabotages biotech, and greedy delusions infiltrate organics. The curse of interesting times is upon us.
Three Conferences Report
Vitality Sept. 2001
In the late 1800s the writer and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes observed: “The mind, once stretched, never regains its original
TOXIC DRINKING WATER
How Fluoridation is Endangering Public Health in
Favour of Government and Corporate Interests
Vitality Magazine October 2010
by Aliss Terpstra
It is destructive to democracy and human rights when any government agency claims to have the authority to cause harm to our health with a toxic substance, denies the harm, denies the toxicity, and then says the harm and toxicity are justifiable.
human rights when any government agency claims to have the authority to cause harm to our health with a toxic substance, denies the harm, denies the toxicity, and then says the harm and toxicity are justifiable.
UNDERSTANDING DRUGS
By Helke Ferrie
Vitality Magazine March 2008
Street drugs kill about 20,000 people a year in
By Helke Ferrie
Vitality November 2009
You are invited to a great annual bash this month, namely Toronto’s Whole Life EXPO (November 27-29), where for the 23rd year we can celebrate health, critical thinking, and the inexhaustibility of good ideas. I intend to be there with a great, big organic, home-made carrot cake at the Kos Publishing booth to celebrate the fact that I have been writing for Vitality for 10 years! If you got shocking, empowering, and thought-provoking information from my articles, I am very happy - but just think what a dizzying learning curve it has been for me! Writing for an information-hungry audience imbued with doubt, and ready to question any claim to authority, has been a journey towards enlightenment and an exercise in humility. It has also been a breathtaking trip through medical politics as it unfolded – with editor Julia Woodford hot on my heels wanting it all in print for you.
Book Review
By Helke Ferrie
“What to Eat” by
What To Eat by
Marion Nestle is Professor and Chair of the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at
WILL THE TRUTH MAKE MEDICINE FREE?
By Helke Ferrie
“The Truth shall make you free.”
Gospel of St. John
“The Truth shall make you free – but first it hurts.”
Gloria Steinem
Nicolas Regush, well known for his masterful investigative reporting on health issues for CBC radio and television, wrote shortly before his death the following observation:
“There is no way to be nice about this. There is no point in raising false hopes. There is no treatment or vaccine in sight. There is no miracle breakthrough on the horizon. Medicine, as we know it, is dying. It is entering a terminal phase. What began as an acute illness reached the chronic stage about a decade ago and progression towards death has been remarkably swift and well beyond anything one could have predicted. The disease is caused by conflict of interest, tainted research, greed for big bucks, pretentious doctors and scientists, lying, cheating, invasion by the morally bankrupt marketing automatons of the drug industry, derelict politicians and federal and state regulators - all seasoned with huge doses of self-importance and foul odor.”
WHEN (The Women’s Healthy Environments Network)
If You Love Our Children
Alive Nov. 2003
When passion, reason and incontrovertible scientific fact unite on a project the result is sure to be a masterpiece inspiring faith that moves mountains. The Women’s Healthy Environments Network (WHEN) is working on the production of a documentary on how the environment affects children’s health
THE YEAR THAT WAS AND THINGS TO COME
By Helke Ferrie
Vitality, December 2009/January 2010
Corruption, stupidity, and greed are best viewed as dispassionately as one views household chores. Don’t get mad. Don’t get depressed. Just help clean up the mess. Forming the habit of calmly resisting the chaos that keeps sneaking up on us ensures a balance is maintained between the forces of darkness and creative humanity. The messes of 2009 were formidable. Talking to hundreds of people during this year’s EXPO was at times exhilarating because nobody appears to feel so victimized as they used to in past years. There is an air of empowerment dancing through the public psyche. Instead of the worried faces speaking of what “they” are doing to wreck food, medicine and human rights, everybody was reporting on what they themselves were doing to expose lies and how they were opposing that sneaking tyranny our government keeps offering under the guise of protection. Space only permits discussing four areas interesting to Vitality readers.
CODEX Alimentarius
Une menace grandissante
Vitality Février 2005
Traduction libre de Louise Jacob
Par: Helke Ferrie
La plus grande menace à notre liberté de choix en soins de santé que ce siècle a jamais produit, par Helke Ferrie.
« Ce n’est pas le rôle de notre gouvernement d’empêcher les citoyens de tomber dans l’erreur ; c’est le rôle du citoyen d’empêcher le gouvernement de tomber dans l’erreur. » Robert Houghwout Jackson, Juge en chef, Tribunal des crimes de guerre, Nuremberg, 1945.
Dernieres Nouvelles À Propos Du CODEX
Vitality, Octobre 2005
Traduction libre de Louise Jacob
Par Helke Ferrie
Qu’est-ce que les avions, les drogues pharmaceutiques et le Codex Alimentarius ont en commun ? Réponse : une boîte noir. Lorsqu’un avion s’écrase, sa boîte noire, retrouvée dans les décombres, contient les enregistrements des événements jusqu’au moment de l’écrasement ce qui permet aux analystes de connaître les causes de la tragédie. L’agence fédérale des drogues des États-Unis (FDA = US Federal Drug Agency) examine les ‘boîtes noires’ des drogues lorsque les analyses post-marketing démontrent qu’elles ont tué une quantité importante de personnes et qu’elles produisent fréquemment des effets secondaires mortelles ; les médecins sont alors informés conjointement tant aux États-Unis qu’au Canada. Lorsque nous consultons le Compendium des produits pharmaceutiques (CPS = Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties), dont les médicaments d’usage courant sont mis à jour annuellement, vous pourrez voir littéralement une boîte noire sous de tels médicaments. À l’intérieur de ce cadre noir sont inscrites des mises en garde.