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		<description><![CDATA[  &#8220;Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.&#8221; Albert Einstein.   If you’re happy being a lemming, living your life on autopilot, or you prefer not to question the status quo, or you easily take umbrage, then this website is not for you. This is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mystywoods.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4582139&amp;post=1&amp;subd=mystywoods&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;">&#8220;Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.&#8221; Albert Einstein.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">If you’re happy being a lemming, living your life on autopilot, or </span><span style="color:#000000;">you prefer not to question the status quo</span><span style="color:#000000;">, or you easily take umbrage,</span><span style="color:#000000;"> then this website is not for you. </span><span style="color:black;">This is where a spade is actually called a spade and your reality may be checked if not shaken.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><strong><span style="color:black;">Always question the status quo:</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style="color:black;">Always question those who place themselves in positions of ‘authority’.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="color:#000000;">“The world abounds in misconceptions and false information, disseminated sometimes by the most respectable people”. Ross Horne, (<em>The Health Revolution, Third Edition</em>, 1984).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="color:#000000;">The following are observations gleaned from more than half a century of personal experience, including observations of the experiences of friends and family, as well as many years of research. </span><span style="color:#000000;">It’s amazing what you can learn when you don’t rely on commercial media headlines as the sole basis of your knowledge.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="color:#000000;">There are those who will not appreciate this candid freedom of speech because it reveals the not-so-pretty side of &#8216;the business&#8217;. Some may even call this an ‘attack’ on all that they hold in high esteem; however, one cannot blame the observer for what he/she sees while looking down the microscope; nor for reporting those observations. Shooting the messenger does not change the message they convey. Do people blame a doctor for giving them bad news?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;">The Unholy Trinity:</span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><strong><span style="color:black;">Three industries that look after each other.</span></strong></p>
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<li><strong>The Medical &#8216;Profession&#8217;.</strong></li>
<li><strong>The Pharmaceutical Industry.                                                         </strong><strong> </strong></li>
<li><strong>The Meat &amp; Dairy Industry.</strong></li>
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<div><strong><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-227" title="Handshake" src="http://mystywoods.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/handshake2.jpg?w=150&#038;h=107" alt="Handshake" width="150" height="107" />1. The Medical ‘Profession’.</strong></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;">The following relates <em>not</em> to those open minded people who study and practice wholistic (deliberately spelled with a ‘W’ as it is the study of the <em>whole </em>make up of a being) or alternative medicine, it relates to those who make their living from a more narrow perspective, in the business of illness.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><em>The Health Revolution</em> (mentioned above) may be an older book, by today’s idea of time, and further studies have been done since then, but all else aside, the book holds many insights into health, disease and medicine. It is also a great catalyst for the venture into unravelling and taking a close look at the business of illness. For truly, contrary to what the media tells us, we have advanced very little in medicine since that time.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;">This is the twenty first century and the ‘experts’ have been studying for centuries to find cures. Yet we still suffer from colds and flu, including those who submit themselves to so-called flu immunisations. We still suffer from stress, anxiety, pain; both physical and mental. We still suffer and die prolonged deaths from cancer. For how long have we been told that a cure for cancer is just around the corner? We’ve even heard that they’ve found a cure for certain types of cancer, but it’s never quite within the grasp of the ordinary person for one reason or another, and people continue to suffer every type of cancer.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;">If one of those who are working in the field of ‘finding the cure for cancer’ actually found a cure, would it not mean that that particular job had become obsolete? So how hard do we think they are really looking to find that cure? Where exactly do our donations go?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;">http://www.naturalnews.com/022115.html (You may need to copy and paste this link).</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;">How many times have we asked a doctor, ‘what is the cause’, and how many times have we received the shrug? Many years ago a gp said to me ‘If you find the cause you can usually find the cure’. Does the medical profession really want to know the cause of an illness, in order to find a real and permanent cure?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;">When we think about it, it is in the <em>interest </em>of the medical institution for the populace to become or remain ill. If doctors informed us of the causes of illnesses, an intelligent society would surely avoid those causes, and therefore the illnesses. We would be a far more healthy society. However, the medical profession makes its money from an ill or dis-eased society.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-220" title="fruit1" src="http://mystywoods.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/fruit1.jpg?w=128&#038;h=88" alt="fruit1" width="128" height="88" /></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;">Many illnesses relate to diet. We truly are the product of what we eat. The fuel that we put into our bodies feeds the very cells that make up our being. Most of us are aware of this. And yet when studying to become a doctor, very little time, if any, is spent on the study of nutrition (depending on where the study takes place). Most is spent on masking the symptoms after the person has become ill; not on prevention.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">An old friend of mine whose school mate went on to university to study medicine, said that when the friend was attending a lecture he was astounded to hear a professor utter the following; “Don’t try to cure them, just keep ‘em coming back”.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Of course, it’s in a doctor’s interest to do so. It’s his livelihood.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;">Have you ever asked yourself why most gp’s belittle the idea of vitamins and minerals? Once again, if illness was truly prevented, doctors would be out of a job.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;">Those who work in the medical profession do not work in the business of <em>health</em> as we are told, they work in the business of <em>illness</em> and disease.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;">Many doctors denigrate natural therapies because they don’t want <em>healthy</em> competition.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;">Drugs and chemicals are <strong>not </strong>conducive to good health.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4DOQ6Xhqss" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4DOQ6Xhqss</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Nutrition:</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#333333;" lang="EN-US">“Why are conventional doctors never trained in nutrition? Nutrition plays such a vital role in maintaining good health. We are what we eat. Yet our doctors are trained in <em>institutions funded by the pharmaceutical industry</em> and are given little or no training in this vitally important area”.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#333333;" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.thrivinghealthywomen.com.au/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=887">http://www.thrivinghealthywomen.com.au/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=887</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;"><strong>Medical Myths &amp; Propaganda.</strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;"><strong>Fear</strong>: A great tool for control.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="color:#000000;">As we’ve learned from the Bush/Howard regimes, among others, <img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-230" title="GrimReaper" src="http://mystywoods.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/grimreaper.jpg?w=150&#038;h=129" alt="GrimReaper" width="150" height="129" />the Fear Factor is commonly used to sway the public, or more accurately, to manipulate us. If we believe ‘the sky is falling’ then we will look to our leaders of the day, or to those, not necessarily in whom we trust but those in current positions of authority who we hope will save us from this impending doom. So we run to them, we vote for them (rightly or wrongly), and we obey them (rightly or wrongly), as with religion also; in the hope of ‘being saved’.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="color:#000000;">The very reason we subject ourselves to endless medical tests is, let’s face it, out of sheer terror. The terror that is instilled in us by our gp’s, and the rest of the medical profession (as well as their tv advertising), that something very frightening will happen to us if we do not submit to often invasive, humiliating, risky, uncomfortable if not downright painful, fearful and often dicey (especially when foreign substances ‘have to be’ injected into our bodies) tests. Terrorising the public into subjecting themselves to these constant tests. Considering all the above some may call them emotional, if not physical torture. Those who have had tubes inserted through the groin up to the heart; or a spinal tap, will know what I&#8217;m talking about.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="color:#000000;">Tests are referred to by the medical profession as ‘preventative’. As we’ve already discussed, those in the business of illness are not about ‘prevention’. Aside from that obvious circumstance, all these tests do not ‘prevent’ us from getting cancer or anything else; they only tell us that we have it, after the fact. They also help doctors and their mates (sorry, ‘colleagues’) who perform such tests, to retain a certain lifestyle of which the rest of us can only dream.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><strong><span style="color:#000000;">While on the subject of tests:</span></strong><span style="color:#000000;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="color:#000000;">How many of us have been informed by our doctor that they can now do <em>whole-body </em>scans? (Yes, a scan that can pick up a tiny problem anywhere in the body in one fell swoop, a single scan). Probably not many of us, certainly no one I know. The real reason? Because it is more profitable for the medical profession to do a myriad of separate tests on individual body parts, as if no part is linked to, or affects another. Any person who has a good understanding of how the human body works knows that this &#8216;separateness of body parts&#8217; is a ridiculous concept and is simply not accurate.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="color:#000000;">Once you submit to being placed on the medical conveyor belt; or the medical merry-go-round it’s hard to get off. The medical profession would have us believe that it’s ‘normal’ to be somebody’s ‘patient’, that we’re all lifelong patients; rather than free citizens with the intelligence, and right, to make our own informed decisions and not be coerced into continual tests by fear.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;color:black;">How many general practitioners treat us as the individuals we are, with individual systems, reactions etc? If we have different needs then why are we given the Assembly Line Diagnosis of one-size-fits-all? One size does </span><strong><em><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;color:black;">not</span></em></strong><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;color:black;"><strong> </strong>fit all. No one is asking for ‘special treatment’, the point here is that we are not all clones of each other and a different approach is needed for each individual.</span></p>
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<h3><span style="font-size:11pt;"><a href="http://www.truthnews.us/?p=1444">The Great Human Papilloma Virus Vaccine Hoax Exposed</a></span></h3>
<h3><span style="font-size:11pt;">“</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-weight:normal;">NewsTarget has obtained documents from the FDA and other sources (see below) which reveal that</span><span style="font-size:11pt;"> the FDA has been well aware for several years that Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) has no direct link to cervical cancer.” <span style="color:#444444;"><a href="http://www.truthnews.us/?p=1444" target="_blank">http://www.truthnews.us/?p=1444</a></span></span></h3>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><strong><span style="color:#333333;">Informed Choice or Coercion?</span></strong><strong> </strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#333333;">“Patient autonomy requires that people should be able to choose,<sup> </sup>free from coercion, whether they wish to participate in screening.<sup> </sup>To make a decision participants require unbiased information<sup> </sup>on both the benefits as well as the harms of screening. However,<sup> </sup>although there have been some encouraging moves in this direction, much current information overemphasises the benefits of screening,<sup> </sup>minimises the harms, and does not clarify to the reader that<sup> </sup>there is a choice to be made about whether screening is worthwhile<sup> </sup>for them. Consequently, informed choice is difficult to<sup> </sup>achieve and screening has overwhelming uncritical public support.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><strong><a href="http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/332/7550/1148?rss">http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/332/7550/1148?rss</a></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">&#8220;Tests are probably the worst studied and worst understood of all medical practices.” <strong>Dr David Eddy, Health Care Consultant.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">“…government studies estimate that up to one in six of those admitted to hospital in Australia, have been hurt in some way by the medical care which is supposed to help them”. “While it&#8217;s important to recognise the value of medical tests and therapies, we also need much more healthy skepticism and much better information, in order to make more informed choices for ourselves and our loved ones”.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">“As more and more technology becomes available, more and more tests are being performed in hospitals and doctors&#8217; surgeries. But the more we look for problems, the more we find. And many of the so-called abnormalities which show up in test results may not really be a problem at all&#8221;. Ray Moynihan. <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/science/slab/medicine/trans3.htm">http://www.abc.net.au/science/slab/medicine/trans3.htm</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;margin:0 0 16.2pt;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#444444;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><strong>Stopping Cancer:</strong></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;margin:0 0 16.2pt;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#444444;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">“The treatment of cancer through chemotherapy drugs is the medical equivalent of Stone Age Man wielding a club. &#8216;I know how to cure a headache, I&#8217;ll knock the guy senseless&#8217;. Another analogy would be attacking a handful of alleged terrorists by pepper-bombing Baghdad and killing tens of thousands of civilians in the process.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#444444;">How appropriate, then, that the same force is ultimately behind the bombing of Iraq and the insane cancer &#8216;treatment&#8217; that people receive in hospitals across the world.<br />
Chemotherapy doesn&#8217;t just kill cancer cells, it kills </span><em><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#444444;">cells</span></em></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#444444;">, period. I mean all kinds of cells including the healthy ones. Here we are nine years into the 21st century and the treatment of cancer is based on a simple and extraordinary question:<br />
Will we kill the cancer cells before we have killed enough healthy cells to kill the patient?<br />
What&#8217;s more, the human immune system consists of cells and this is why chemotherapy patients all complete the &#8216;treatment&#8217; with a devastated immune system that leaves them open to all kinds of other attacks on the body &#8211; including more cancer. In truth, modern cancer &#8216;treatment&#8217; is often little more than assisted suicide.<br />
Years ago I saw a film showing microscope footage of the immune system killing cancer cells. This is happening all the time and when the immune system is healthy and vibrant cancer is kept in check. But here we have the very </span><em><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#444444;">treatment</span></em><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#444444;"> of cancer &#8211; chemotherapy &#8211; destroying that defence network. The word insanity does not even begin to suffice. But there is another way and it&#8217;s been here for as long as humans have populated the planet.”</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#444444;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">Nature without chemicals.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#444444;"><a href="http://www.davidicke.com/"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">www.davidicke.com</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><strong>What I&#8217;ve learned:-</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><strong>You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours. </strong>Years ago my father told me, &#8220;A doctor refers you to one of his mates to have your tests done when he tells you ‘you should see a specialist’ about something&#8221;. (A doctor recently tried to refer me to her husband for a scan). It makes you wonder are they looking after us or taking care of themselves and their mates?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">There are plenty of freebies in the medical profession also; drs attend seminars sponsored by pharmaceutical companies, where they get free dinners and literally show-bags of free samples. Then there are the free holidays and weekends away, all for promoting (and prescribing) the latest fad drugs. They also look after each other in other ways. A retired Queensland nurse who once told me she had seen &#8220;a lot of stuff-ups” in her time, also said “They all cover for each other and back each other up” in many matters. And that &#8216;families are often told something quite different to what actually occurred in surgery&#8217;. (Where one nurse is afraid to go public, there are no doubt many more).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;">Another example: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/national/hospital-bungle-leaves-family-seething-20091009-gqwh.html">http://www.smh.com.au/national/hospital-bungle-leaves-family-seething-20091009-gqwh.html</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;">Most astonishing health disaster of the twentieth century:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Anti-depressants</strong> seem to be an increasing fad: These things are handed out like lollies. In many cases they make the depression worse (always read the side effects), they can increase the risk of diabetes, cause weight gain and have even caused people to suicide. (It’s easy enough to Google for information on any of this). To this day there is no test for seratonin levels in the brain. Contrary to what a gp will tell you, anti-depressants <strong><em>are</em></strong> addictive. The doctor is only going by what the manufacturer of the product tells him/her, and from their carefully designed glossy flyers. In fact psychologists are now being trained to help people to wean off anti-depressants. Yet doctors are still handing them out liberally and a huge percentage of the Western population are walking around with this stuff flowing through their bloodstream 24/7. One woman, after having been on anti-depressants for a few months, reported that she now felt nothing; she said she had lost the ability to orgasm and the ability to cry. One wonders if these things are designed to cause us to be in a permanent state of apathy, because that is what they do. Once again, doctors are medicalising nature, by coming up with a pill for unhappiness. What will be next?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Anti-depressants are also, strangely enough, prescribed for illnesses other than depression, but they do not help people any more than a placebo. There is an increasing amount of information on the internet regarding the latest findings. Yet many doctors will continue prescribing various types and brands to the same ‘patient’ ad-nauseam as each one fails to have the desired effect. Wasn’t it Albert Einstein (some say <span style="color:#333333;">Benjamin Franklin)</span> who said “The sure sign of insanity is repeating the same action, expecting different results”?</p>
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