Cancer, Heart Disease and Big Pharma's Denial of the Importance of Vitamins on Health

Regarding the importance of vitamins on health, incontrovertible
evidence has been cited concerning the critical importance
of progesterone, vitamins, as well as other supplements, to
the genetic health, physical/mental ability, and scholastic
aptitude of our children.

The importance of vitamins on health of normal children has
been researched and proven.

Moreover, it appears that normal children benefit from a
daily vitamin supplement as part of a child nutrition
program, further indicating the importance of vitamins on
health. What's more since vitamin supplements can, not only
prevent certain genetic birth defects and have been used to
successfully treat over fifty genetic diseases, according to
Dr. Bruce Ames, doesn't it make sense that vitamin
supplements would more than likely help prevent genetic
diseases arising in our children, if included in a child
nutrition program?

The importance of vitamins on health is well established in
both normal children and those with serious health
disorders.

Yet, with the importance of vitamins on health so well
documented, why is there so much controversy regarding child
nutrition programs recommending vitamin supplements?

Facts about vitamins established that the controversy is due to
big pharmaceutical companies protecting their patented drug
profits by using every trick in the book to discredit the
effect of vitamins on disease and particularly vitamin C.

With the importance of vitamins on health becoming
increasingly accepted by the public, Big Pharma has recently,
again, attempted to discredit vitamin C. This time claiming
it causes cancer. In the article, "They Say That Vitamin C
Can Increase the Risk of Cancer," Steven Ransom critiques Dr.
Ian Blair's position:
...lets put Dr Blair's University of Pennsylvania under the
spotlight and see what encouragement Dr Blair might have
had in taking his extraordinary position...against Vitamin
C.

We must ask the following questions: what Big Pharma
influences might there be supporting the University of
Pennsylvania Cancer Center (UPCC) and its mother ship, the
University of Pennsylvania Health Service? What is the
relative weight of the funding bodies? If industry
sponsorship is taking place, are UPHS personnel free to
exercise unbiased critical thinking? Or are there grounds
to suspect that UPHS been 'bought' - that somewhere along
the line, vested interests have 'purchased academic
judgment'?

Before tackling the Vitamin C issue itself, the following
UPHS general statistics are very revealing.

...In May 2000, Dr Ian Blair's employers at UPCC received a
$26 million, five year Core Grant from the National Cancer
Institute (NCI) - the largest and most influential
conventional cancer treatment institution in the world.

...Currently, UPCC is awash with more than $100 million in
cancer research funding:

$37 million is from the National Cancer Institute; $43
million from closely affiliated organisations, such as the
National Institutes of Health, the organisation which
actually funded Dr Blair's Vitamin C research; another $12
million from foundational support such as the American
Cancer Society and the Leukaemia Society; and between $8
and $10 million from various pharmaceutical companies.
Earlier, in June of 1999, UPCC received a $4.5 million gift
from the William H. Gates Foundation to research
conventional treatments for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Aside from the Bill and Melinda Gates connection, OncoLink,
the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center, [28] is
sponsored very generously by the following corporations:
Amgen, the world's largest independent biotechnology
company; Aventis, Ortho Biotech, Inc., Varian, Inc.,
Janssen Pharmaceutica, AstraZeneca, Pharmacia Upjohn and
Pfizer. These corporations are very big indeed, and their
names represent no mean sponsorship committee.

(Steven Ransom points out the financial interconnection
between Big Pharma and universities).


  • "If I contracted cancer, I would never go to a standard
    cancer treatment centre. Cancer victims who live far from
    such centres have a chance." Professor Charles Mathe,
    French cancer specialist

  • "...as a chemist trained to interpret data, it is
    incomprehensible to me that physicians can ignore the
    clear evidence that chemotherapy does much, much more
    harm than good." - Alan C Nixon, PhD, former president of
    the American Chemical Society

  • "Doctors are too busy to dig into the statistics of
    cancer treatments, they assume that what they are taught at
    school or what is demonstrated in the pages of briefing
    journals is the best treatment. They cannot afford to
    suspect that these treatments are only the best for the
    pharmaceutical companies that influence their 'institutions
    of higher learning'." Paul Winter, The Cancell Home Page.

  • "To the cancer establishment, a cancer patient is a
    profit center. The actual clinical and scientific evidence
    does not support the claims of the cancer industry.
     Conventional cancer treatments are in place as the law of
    the land because they pay, not heal, the best. Decades of
    the politics-of-cancer-as-usual have kept you from knowing
    this, and will continue to do so unless you wake up to this
    reality." - Lee Cowden MD

  • ..."Dr Linus Pauling, often known as the 'Father of
    Vitamin C' and twice awarded the Nobel Prize, declared that
    large intakes of up to 10g of the vitamin each day aids
    anti-cancer activity within the body. Pauling was largely
    derided for making these declarations, but today, large
    doses of Vitamin C are used by many practitioners for
    cancer patients in nutritional therapy, who believe Pauling
    was right and that the popular nutrient is indispensable to
    the body in its fight to regain health from cancer."
    Phillip Day, Cancer, Why We're Still Dying to Know The
    Truth, Credence Publications, 2001.

  • "Do not let either the medical authorities or the
    politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and
    make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and
    how to work for a better world." Linus Pauling
    http://www.cforyourself.com

(Steven Ransom continues)

So Why the Slur on Vitamin C?

As has already been stated, conventional cancer treatment
represents a $multi-billion a year industry. These vast
profits are fiercely protected by the industry giants. But
their treatments in no way address the underlying causes of
cancer. Cancer is a nutritional/toxic/environmental
condition, which, in a great number of instances, can be
successfully reversed through the application of a sound
nutritional approach and common-sense lifestyle changes.
Linus Pauling, dubbed the father of Vitamin C, sensibly
promoted the benefits of consuming high doses Vitamin C in
the prevention of and battle against cancer.

Half-Truths and Lies

So why aren't we hearing about these natural treatment
successes? Why aren't they being heralded across the world?
The answer is money. Despite the multitudinous successes in
cancer regression through nutrition, and through extensive
application of vital elements such as Vitamin C,
Vitamin B17, pancreatic enzymes and other co-factors, Big
Pharma is doing all it can to silence these success stories.
To have it become widely known that cancer can be
successfully treated without toxic and profitable
pharmaceuticals would be catastrophic for its business.

Who would continue to purchase these products? What would
the Siemens, Glaxo and Upjohn shareholders have to say
about that? To their shame, vested interests are keeping
well-proven, non-toxic cancer treatments from the public
domain. This is why, under 'cancer treatments' the UPHS
website says this of vitamin B17:
http://cancer.med.upenn.edu/pdq_html/6/engl/600093.html

"Several patients displayed symptoms of cyanide poisoning,
including muscle weakness and impaired reflexes, or had
life-threatening levels of cyanide in their blood.
(Laetrile can release cyanide, which is a highly toxic
chemical.) The researchers concluded that Laetrile is not
effective as a cancer treatment and is harmful in some
cases."

But now read this contrary extract from a radio talk show,
featured in Phillip Day's Cancer, Why We Are Still Dying To
Know The Truth:

Radio host Laurie Lee:"So this is verified, that laetrile
[B17] can have this positive effect?" (See video at:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4312930190281243507)

Dr Ralph Moss: "We were finding this and yet, we in Public
Affairs were told to issue statements to the exact opposite
of what we were finding scientifically."

At the time, Ralph Moss was former Assistant Director of
Public Relations at Memorial Sloan Kettering, NY, a leading
American conventional cancer research facility.

Of course Laetrile, or Vitamin B17, is not approved by the
FDA, but not because it isn't beneficial - it is, as the
links provided at the bottom of this report will
demonstrate. No, Vitamin B17 has not been approved by the
FDA simply because the FDA have been leaned on. That's the
way it goes in the self-preserving, self-serving,
conventional cancer business.

To put it bluntly, biddable FDA officials are only a phone
call and a golfing lunch away from the NCI and the NIH. A
classic example of these conflicts of interests and double
standards can be appreciated when one learns that sodium
fluoride is also not approved by the FDA due to its
toxicity, and yet drug giant Proctor and Gamble and others
can market the stuff in their toothpastes with complete
impunity.

The UPHS statement on Laetrile is a fabrication. Such is
the wealth of evidence overturning the conventional stance
on Laetrile and Vitamin C, that one can only assume the
UPHS statement falls into the following category:

False Scientific Research 'Endangering the Public'...

News, 13.12. 2000 Doctors are fabricating research results
to win grants and advance their careers, but the medical
establishment is failing to protect the public from the
menace of these scientific frauds, a committee of medical
editors said yesterday. Eighty cases of fraudulent research
have been detected in the past four years, and 30 have been
investigated in the past year. In some cases, institutions
have covered up wrongdoing to protect reputations ....

The Nub of It

In an effort to subvert this mass-awakening to the horrors
of conventional cancer treatments, a devious attack on all
genuinely beneficial, natural (and therefore un-patentable)
anti-cancer products is now being waged by a rather worried
conventional cancer establishment The ever-so-gentle slur
on our most vital of vitamins, namely Vitamin C, will soon
be extended to a wide range of essential minerals and
vitamins.


There is strong evidence that vitamin B-17 and vitamin C
could greatly decrease or even eliminate the danger of heart
disease and cancer on American society if used in high enough
dosages, along with a sensible dietary program. These two
vitamins signify the tremendous importance of vitamins on
health.

For information on vitamin C and its effect on heart disease,
link to facts about vitamins.

The importance of vitamins on health is too great a danger
to Big Pharma profits to be left to easy public vitamin
access.

From this perspective, Big Pharma's willingness to go so
far and spend so much money on their war on supplements
suggests that the importance of vitamins on health may be
greater than generally accepted. Moreover by silencing
success stories about the importance of vitamins on health,
Big Pharma prevents that information from getting to the
where it might benefit children.

Recent attempts by the FDA, representing Big Pharma, to
make any vitamin dosage above the minimum daily requirement
a prescription drug indicates the lengths they are willing to
go to bolster their profits at the expense of our health.
If this law passes, which it may due to the persistence of
Big Pharma, no significant child nutrition program will be
possible, and citizens will be at the mercy of the
pharmaceutical companies.

Apparently Big Pharma is so worried about the importance of
vitamins on health that they are lobbying to severely limit
their use. Maybe Big Pharma is worried that the importance
of vitamins on health, with widespread use, might lead to too
many healthy people and not enough spending on their
medications?

The importance of vitamins on health, in the case of
Vitamin C, might prove, particularly, worrisome to Big
Pharma.

It appears that high dose vitamin C, alone, would make a
huge difference when included in a child nutrition program
for not only, according to Dr. Pauling would it help
prevent cancer, but along with lysine it would prevent
cardiovascular disease.

 What a child nutrition program that would make! Other
doctors, besides Pauling, have proven the importance of
vitamins on health

Dr. Frederick R. Klenner, M.D., F.C.C.P., his "list of
honors and professional society affiliations is tremendous.
He is listed in a flock of various "Who's Who" registers.
He has published many scientific papers throughout his
scientific career." For a list of the many disorders, this
remarkable man successfully treated with vitamin C,
click here.

 Note that Dr. Klenner created a child nutrition program for
his son, involving taking vitamin C. Here is the vitamin C
child nutrition program he developed in his own words:

"Our son who will be 19 in July has never developed a tooth
cavity. Since age 10 he has received at least 10 grams
ascorbic acid, daily, by mouth. Before age 10 the amount
given was on a sliding scale."

Two questions remain, regarding a child nutrition program.
How does vitamin C protect animal life from so many
disorders? How safe are vitamins?

The general protective affect of vitamin C may, in part, be
due to the fact it is the only antioxidant that has been
proven to increase collagen synthesis. Collagen formation
is essential for body growth, tissue repair and wound
healing. Vitamin C serves as a signal for collagen genes to
synthesize collagen.

Notice the importance of vitamins on health is often due to
their affect on genes. Hence, vitamin C would be at the
top of my list in any child nutrition program.

The importance of vitamins on health is reinforced by
B-17's possible effect of eliminating cancer. The importance
of vitamins on health is striking due to vitamins ability
to potentially eliminate heart disease, according to Linus
Pauling and others. The importance of vitamins on health
is bolstered more by its general disease fighting ability.
The importance of vitamins on health may be greater than we
ever imagined.

Although the importance of vitamins on health is
established, it is imperative that vitamins be safe. Except
for the mineral iron, vitamins appear extremely safe.

According to the following graph, vitamins appear very safe
to include in a child nutrition program.

Considering the importance of vitamins on health, one is
50,000 times more likely to die from a correct doctor's
prescription than vitamins. In fact, one is 40 times more
likely to die from a lightning strike than dietary
supplements.

Conclusions:


  • A child nutrition program, including dietary supplements
    is not only very safe, but a necessity for optimal child
    health and protection.

  • The importance of vitamins on health is so vital that a
    widespread supplement program might result in the virtual
    elimination of cancer, heart disease, as well as a whole
    host of other health disorders.

  • "To the cancer establishment, a cancer patient is a
    profit center," according to Dr. Lee Cowden MD.

  • The FDA represents Big Pharma.

  • Big Pharma's war on vitamins is totally profit driven.

  • Cancer is a nutritional/toxic/environmental condition,
    probably best addressed by diet, vitamins and
    supplements and research into these areas.

  • The importance of vitamins on health is so crucial that
    Big Pharma's profit driven war against the distribution and
    public awareness of vitamins should be considered genocide.

  • With the importance of vitamins on health so well
    documented, it is interesting to note that much of the
    money given by the National Cancer Institute, the National
    Institutes of Health, the Leukaemia Society, the American
    Cancer Society and the William H. Gates Foundation goes for
    research into traditional cancer research, instead of
    vitamin and supplement research that has a better record
    fighting and preventing cancer.

  • Big Pharma's war on vitamins is a profit driven
    fabrication. As such, their research is to be considered
    with that in mind.

  • The importance of vitamins on health is too important to
    be left up to Big Pharma. Parents must do their own
    research.



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