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The
National Cancer Institute Is Still Alive! (They assume all
of us are Idiots.)
Now let's get back to John Bailar, III of the
Harvard School of Public Health and et al who published their
findings, covering the previous 35 years prior to 1986, in the
New
England Journal of Medicine which concluded that
this country was losing the battle against cancer; they showed
that "the overall death rate from cancer had steadily
increased ...despite some minor breakthroughs." Needless
to say, the National Cancer Institute brought out all of its
big guns to undermine the credibility of this
study‑‑to say the least of what they attempted to
do to the reputation of John Bailer, III. On top of this came
the United States General Accounting Office (GAO) report in
March 1987 that concluded that only minimal success had been
achieved in the treatment of cancer in this country, except
for that seen in rare and obscure forms of cancer; keep in
mind this is the group that oversees how government money is
used. This includes the slip-shod, under the table
tactics used by the National Cancer Institute.
Following the above broad side attacks on the
National Cancer Institute's ability to mobilize effective
research that might solve the problem on cancer in this
country, many studies began to appear in the literature that
suggest that the antioxidant vitamins and minerals lowered the
risk of lung cancer, especially vitamin E. In fact, the
National Cancer Institute itself even concluded that over 60
percent of all cancers were the direct result of inadequate
nutrition or poor diets. To date there have been over 20
scientific studies that have shown that vitamin E lowers the
risk of developing lung cancer in smokers.
Even in face of the overwhelming evidence
accumulating from around the world, defining the effectiveness
of vitamins and minerals being capable of preventing many of
our chronic degenerative disorders, the National Cancer
Institute (NIH) wasted 48 million of our tax dollars in an
attempt to set back nutrition 50 years and to push forward the
vested pharmaceutical industry 20 years.
This crippled, antiquated, arm of our
government has now clearly exposed its true agenda and purpose‑‑that is the
perpetuation of the
status quo, which means the suppression of our
right to a healthy life, free of disease.
Furthermore, the powers that direct or mandate
the National Cancer Institute most certainly had their heads
stuck deep in the ground or somewhere else to think that this
great nation is not aware of the benefits that they tried to
gain by timing the release of this study to the honest and
just efforts of the Hatch, Richardson legislation. Obviously,
their attempt to negatively influence our legislators failed.
Now let's take a quick look at our National
Cancer Institute's questionable study, now dubbed the
"Finnish Fake", published in their lackey print
outlet the New
England Journal of Medicine (Vol 330;
1029-1035,1/1994). There is no doubt, when analyzed by
equally qualified experts, that the architects of this poorly
designed study (or maybe I should say this contrived study)
were biased, or had a hidden agenda, against the oral use of
vitamins and mineral supplementation as practiced by the close
to 45 percent of the population in this country. Some of the
obvious aspects of just how poorly the so called Finnish Study
which included 29,133 men between the ages of 50 and 69, all
of whom were heavy smokers of long duration and who were not
even advised to stop smoking during the course of the study,
are as follows:
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If you wish to determine the effects of vitamins and
mineral as a preventive measure against a disease, such as cancer or
heart disease, you pick a population known to have a normal distribution of the
disease. You certainly would not zero in on a nation, such as Finland which has been
defined by the British Medical Journal
and the American
Journal of Clinical Nutrition as having some of the
world's worst nutritional habits and a high incidence of
cancer. For your information Finland is also known to
have one of the world's highest per capita consumption of
alcohol, especially by smokers.
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Finland is also known to have extremely low
levels of the essential mineral selenium in the soil; as you
know, selenium is also a known antioxidant felt to interfere
with the development of cancer.
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The researchers involved in this study used only a
small fraction of the amount (1 /8th to 1 /40th) of vitamin E, which
had previously been shown to
decrease the incidence of lung cancer, even in
smokers. That's even worse than you might expect from our own USRDA's.
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While talking about the dosages used I have to point
out that this landmark, earth shaking study, chose to use only 1 /10th of the dosage
of beta carotene suggested for the prevention of cancer in
non-smokers, by qualified and competent nutritionally knowledge researchers. Let's
also point out that most of us, who use nutrition in our clinical practices, promote
the benefits of beta carotene even though we feel that alpha carotene (a chemical
analog) is a much more potent antioxidant. Taken together, all of the collective efforts
of the government regulatory agencies, including the Federal
Drug Agency, failed in their massive efforts to prohibit or
cast dispersions on the use of vitamins, minerals, and food
supplementation as a means of preventing or even treating
degenerative diseases such as cancer.
To say the least the Hatch/Richardson Dietary
Bill passed the Senate and the Congress unanimously, with only
minor but livable modifications.
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