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Tim’s DVD Reviews

Interview with Dr. Ray Peat depends on meaningless relative numbers to exaggerate treatment benefits.
Ultrasounds Radio with Eluv Five year survival rates have improved only because of earlier diagnoses,
http://eluv.podbean.com/2008/10/10/eluv-live- while real survival rates has not changed significantly for fifty years. The
interview-with-dr-ray-peat/ truth becomes even more inconvenient for the industry when you look at
the list of studies from the Journal of the American Medical Association,
If you have read Eat Fat, Lose Fat, or Wise the Lancet, the New England Journal of Medicine, and other prestigious
Traditions journals and website, you know coco- publications showing that untreated patients live longer than treated pa-
nut oil is pretty amazing stuff. There are a few tients. The bad news gets even worse when you consider the fact that the
other people out there who think so too. Dr. Ray treatments of choice are quite barbaric. Senator Hubert Humphrey called
Peat is one of them. Early on in this interview he chemotherapy “bottled death.” Charles Huggins, MD, said, “There are
states that saturated fat is good fat—not some- worse things than death. One of them is chemotherapy.”
thing you hear every day, except from us. From There are many ways to lie or distort the truth with numbers. Eighty
there, he focuses in on coconut oil and details percent of all statistics are wrong—including this one.
some of the benefits, which include regulating The movie does well at sorting through the statistics and even ex-
metabolism and helping to keep weight under plaining things like the AMA’s war against chiropractors, homeopathy
control, controlling estrogen, helping the thyroid and anything that worked. The consensus of the experts in the film is that
issues and even preventing or reducing sunburn changing one’s diet is the most effective answer to cancer. That sounds
damage. like a good answer but I know trouble is brewing when I see names like T.
While he gives out some good and intriguing Colin Campbell and Dr. John McDougall. They still sing the same tune,
information, one must be careful when listening promoting a change to a vegetarian diet. Several testimonials are given
to him. He mentions that there is no such thing by people who made the switch and their cancer problems went away.
as essential fatty acids. Well, yes there are. Dr. I don’t really have any trouble believing that. Changing from SAD to
Mary Enig tried to straighten out his confusion almost anything else can manifest miraculous improvement in the short
on this subject in our Spring 2005 Wise Tradi- run. The long term is another story and that story is why this story ends
tions, but apparently he is still confused. He also with a thumb pointing down. THUMBS DOWN.
says we wouldn’t need vitamin E if we didn’t eat
any polyunsaturated fats. Dr. Enig points out that InGreedients – The Choice is Yours!
there is some polyunsaturated fat in all food. So Produced by J. Thomas Wenzel III
even if that is true, it is kind of like saying, “If Sir Rebel Films
pigs could fly, [fill in the blank].” If pigs could fly,
I would give him a thumbs up for saying things When the average pedestrian on the street is asked what hydrogenated
like that. THUMBS DOWN. oil is, the answer could be anything from something that comes out of
McDonald’s and is used in cars, to a preservative. The most popular an-
Healing Cancer From Inside Out swer is “I don’t know.” Those answers are both amusing and disturbing.
by Mike Anderson Fortunately this video includes Doctors Mary Enig and Beverly Teeter to
RaveDiet.com set everybody straight on the science of trans fats.
InGreedients provides a good mix of humor and revelation—revelation
“I will not give poison to anyone.” That is about the human cost of toxic food ingredients. In an average year, 42,000
a quaint, old-fashioned idea put forth by Hip- will die in car accidents, 1000 in plane crashes, 17,000 will be murdered,
pocrates, alas, no longer in vogue. This DVD and 32,000 will commit suicide. Those numbers look relatively minor
rips away the façade of the cancer industry compared to the number of deaths due to corrupted food. Cancer claims
and explains what the statistics really mean. 560,000 lives per year and heart disease 870,000.
Examples are given showing how the industry According to government new math, up to half a gram “per serving”

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