Health Canada and CBC Television Distort Medical Facts
19 Oct 2014
Do you remember the movie, “Network?” Howard Beale portrays the evening news anchor on national TV and he’s depressed about corruption, crime, unemployment and other societal ills. So angry he decides to speak his mind during the evening broadcast, to everyone’s surprise. Finally, after raving about injustices, he shouts, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore”, repeatedly. Then Beale tells listeners to go to their windows and shout, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.”
This week, like Beale, I’m also mad as hell. Why? Because I was commissioned to do a 30 second commercial on CBC about a product I support. It’s a high combination of vitamin C and lysine that research has proven can save countless lives from heart attack, stroke and other cardiovascular complications. But I was prevented from stating that fact by an ad agency hired by the Canadian Broadcast Association.
Bureaucratic rules would only allow me to say this product was helpful for bones, teeth and gums. This part is correct, but it belies the whole truth. And no one could provide a logical reason for the prohibition. The product’s main purpose is to prevent the nation’s number one killer, heart attack, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases. So why wouldn’t this censure make me mad as hell! Particularly when I’ve been telling readers the truth about this product in my columns.
This commercial was not promoting snake oil. It was reporting a life-saving product based on the research of Dr. Linus Pauling, two-time Nobel Prize winner. His research showed that vitamin C was essential to produce collagen, a glue that holds coronary cells together. And large amounts of vitamin C were needed to prevent heart attack.
Dr. Sydney Bush, an English researcher, has since proven that this combination, not only prevents atherosclerosis (hardening of arteries), but also reverses it. Moreover, he has photos taken over a 16 year period as proof. Photos are worth more than a thousand questionable statistical studies. Bush deserves the Nobel Prize for this research.
The censors at CBC and Health Canada should have done some homework before making their ludicrous decision. They didn’t need to be doctors to see the dramatic effect that vitamin C has on Bush’s before-and-after photos. See an example of the photos here.
This decision makes me mad as hell for other reasons. Readers of my medical column are well aware of questionable medical ads on TV. They scoff at multinational organizations pushing cereals loaded with sugar, that add to the frightening epidemic of type 2 diabetes. And cholesterol lowering drugs (CLDs) that are supposed to be the be-all-and-end-all of heart attack prevention, yet are associated with unintended and bothersome consequences. Yet I’m prevented from reporting the truth about a natural remedy that is effective, less expensive than a CLD and safe.
Readers might ask, “Are doctors supportive?” The answer is a blunt “no”. It is ironic that in spite of research studies, my columns, radio and TV interviews and lectures across Canada, the medical establishment remains silent. Normally, in the past, when I have tackled controversial subjects critical comments are triggered immediately. In this case, is there no ammunition to fire?
Recently I watched the movie Network a second time. Again it made a good point. More of us should get mad as hell about asinine bureaucracy.
Needless to say, I’m going to protest this arbitrary and illogical ruling by Health Canada and the CBC. I’m sure mine will be a lone voice. But in the end the general public often sees the falsehood of censorship.
Unfortunately millions have died in the past because of the closed minds of doctors. It took 60 years for them to accept the fact that lime juice could prevent scurvy. Now, in 2014 how long will it take for Health Canada, the CBC and cardiologists to accept that high doses of vitamin C and lysine can not only prevent, but also reverse hardening of arteries, and end coronary attack?
