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Please click here =20 =20 Issue 237 - 5th March, 2007 Go to our website Here =20 =20 * Hello Alison * Grandads * Laughter * Single Dads=20 * Special Feature * Thought of the Week * All You Need is Love * News & Info * Dad's Prayer * Help Us Hello Alison Super Size Me, the story of Morgan Spurlock who survived on a diet of McDonalds for 30 days with many documented detrimental side effects, could well be considered extreme. The reality of Spurlock's story is that his diet is indicative of what many call our 'western' diet. The Western diet is high in protein (especially animal protein), high in saturated fats, refined foods and sugars but low in plant-based whole foods. Many experts are beginning to seriously question our western approach to nutrition and health in general. It seems as if a mood for change is starting to grow and not before time. =20 My own mother was a registered nurse, trained in some of the best hospitals in the world. Her own experience of our 'fix it after its broken' style of medicine caused her to look outside the square for the answers. Mum was always big on eating your fruit and finishing your vegetables. I must confess, at times I thought she was extreme, but I am still alive today, which must say something. Dad was also an innovative thinker. I can still remember him saying, "Doctors bury their mistakes." He told me of the different approach that the Chinese have to medicine. In a village everybody pays the doctor while they are well and stops paying him when they get sick. This simple but brilliant idea rewards an approach to medicine that focuses on prevention rather than cure. As a young boy I was quite impressed with the idea and wondered why we didn't adopt the idea in the West. So I have always had an interest in health, but just like any other ordinary Aussie bloke, I have drifted along with the culture and never bothered too much with my own health. =20 Strangely enough my renewed interest in health was inspired when we began the Fatherhood Foundation in 2002 and saw the shocking state of men's health in Australia. The system and the overt discrimination against men were contributing factors to the deplorable state of men's health, but we as men were still the biggest part of the problem. As an advocate for an improvement in men's health I realised that I first had to become the change I sought. My wife and I started going to the gym every morning. I began to take a greater interest in what I ate, and I began to notice a general improvement in my health, even though I was still overweight. =20 Last year a good friend of mine in the fatherhood movement, Mark Bourne of the Richard Hillman Foundation, gave me a book called 'The China Study'. The subtitle caught my attention, 'The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted - Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-Term Health', by Dr Colin Campbell, a professor from Cornell University, USA =A9 2005 Published by BenBella Books, Dallas, USA. This book has rocked my world and challenged many cherished assumptions and malpractices. My major problem is that I am finding it very hard to disagree with the research that is presented. =20 The China Study is based on 40 years of scientific research and correlates opinions and experience from the best researchers on diet in the world. All of us have friends that have died from heart attacks or a lingering form of cancer. My own father died of coronary heart failure at 74 years of age. We accept these diseases as normal, but these same diseases are rare or nonexistent in 4 billion of the world's population who do not consume the high animal protein and highly refined food, high fat diet that we consume in the West. In some parts of rural China with a high plant food consumption and a low animal protein diet, heart disease and cancer are virtually nonexistent. The reverse is true when Chinese people followed our western dietary habits, beginning then to suffer from diseases of affluence with greatly increased levels of cancer and heart disease. =20 If you don't want to be challenged, don't read The China Study. If you are looking for health answers and have an open mind, then this is the best book on health that you could possibly read. You will find an excerpt from the forward of The China Study in the Special Feature section. =20 Lovework =20 Always do your own research. Don't blindly believe what the experts tell you. Another title for Dad is 'Family Researcher'. =20 If you and your family want to enjoy a long and healthy life, The China Study by Dr Colin Campbell is a must read. It will smash some of your most cherished notions just as it has done mine. I'm trying to figure out what to do about it, but don't worry, I will get there and so will you. =20 To order your own copy of The China Study contact Mark Bourne: traks@tpg.com.au who will give you a great deal at a great price. =20 ___________________________________________________________ Warwick Marsh has been married to Alison for 31 years. He is the father of five children, four boys and one girl, ranging in age from 26 years to 14 years. Warwick is a musician, songwriter, producer and public speaker who likes to think he can still laugh at himself. back to top=20 =20 Grandads =20 =20 People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care about them. =20 David J Schwartz =20 back to top=20 =20 Laughter =20 =20 back to top=20 =20 Single Dads=20 =20 Below is a text version of Bettina's Arndt's article, slamming FemiNasty Aunty (the ABC) for dishonesty and bias. This time, they lied by claiming that Parental Alienation was thoroughly discredited=20 Journalist, Bettina Arndt is one of the great supporters of children, fathers and families, and deserves our respect. The slowly dying Baby-Boomer papers (the Sydney Morning Feminist and the Melbourne Middle-Age) don't print her stuff anymore. "The Australian" and the "West Australian" newspapers is less biased. James ADAMS (PartTimeParent) www.DadsOnTheAir.net - the radio station for=20 Australia's largest minority group - men. Aunty Brainwashed on Parental Alienation =20 By Bettina Arndt=20 4 March 2007 West Australian=20 =20 ABC management is supposedly watching out for bias and distortion. They should take a hard look at Radio National's Background Briefing. For one-eyed, ideologically driven agendas, this documentary series would be hard to beat. Take the recent program on parental alienation in custody cases. =20 =20 Talk to people and you'll find most know of acrimonious divorce cases where one parent has attempted to alienate the children from the other parent. It happens often. =20 =20 Usually it's the custodial mother who is influencing the children but now that more fathers are having significant access there are men behaving equally badly. Parental alienation exists -- that's a no-brainer. =20 =20 But what is more controversial is whether this brainwashing of children amounts to a psychological disorder, as was suggested more than 20 years ago by American psychiatrist Richard Gardner. =20 =20 Gardner proposed that parents deliberately programming children to hate the other parent -- Parental Alienation Syndrome or PAS -- was only one of the many complex family patterns that can result in alienated children. =20 =20 PAS became widely acknowledged as a common part of the divorce story. =20 =20 The issue of whether there really is PAS has recently come under question, with experts quarrelling over whether it makes it onto the various lists of mental disorders. =20 =20 That's why Background Briefing decided to weigh in, arguing that PAS has now been discredited yet claiming it is still being used in the Australian Family Court to remove children from their mothers and hand them over to abusing fathers. What a load of hogwash. =20 =20 Gardner did suggest that in rare cases of PAS -- perhaps 10 per cent -- the hatred and distorted thinking of the alienating parent was such that it was sometimes better to remove the child, where, for instance, a child was dragged through repeated examinations following false allegations of sexual abuse. =20 =20 Lawyers defending fathers against such false allegations do use Gardner's theory to argue for a change in custody, with some success in the US. =20 =20 But Background Briefing takes this further by digging up a dubious US expert who claimed PAS had become a cancer in their family court, resulting in experts recommending five-year-old children be handcuffed and removed from the "protective" parent and handed over to fathers who have sodomised them. =20 =20 Such scaremongering stories are far from the reality in the Australian courts. It is extremely rare that our courts ever rule that children be removed from custodial parents. =20 =20 It just doesn't happen unless there is overwhelming evidence that the parent is unfit -- as the Chief Justice Diana Bryant pointed out in the program -- but her voice was drowned out by people claiming, without any proper evidence, that she was wrong. =20 =20 For much of the program, Background Briefing revised the tired old issue of whether there are false claims of sexual abuse. These often are at the heart of PAS cases because the alienating parent uses them to try to discredit the other parent. =20 =20 It glossed over a comment by Professor Kim Oates pointing out false accusations are far higher in custody cases, where they usually stem not from children but from a parent. =20 =20 It suggested women are always victims and that the courts are manipulated by dangerous men keen to damage their own children. =20 =20 Instead of this tired old propaganda, why don't these radio producers wake up to the real news -- that children's matters are now to be largely kept out of the courts and dealt with by mediators aiming to help parents stop all these games. =20 =20 back to top=20 =20 Special Feature =20 The China Study Introduction (Part 1) =20 =20 For ten years our primary goal in the Philippines was to improve childhood malnutrition among the poor, a project funded by the US Agency for International Development. Eventually, we established about 110 nutrition 'self-help' education centres around the country. =20 The aim of these efforts in the Philippines was simple: make sure that children were getting as much protein as possible, it was widely thought that much of the childhood malnutrition in the world was caused by a lack of protein, especially from animal-based foods. Universities and governments around the world were working to alleviate a perceived 'protein gap' in the developing world. =20 In this project, however, I uncovered a dark secret. Children who ate the highest-protein diets were the ones most likely to get liver cancer! They were the children of the wealthiest families. =20 I then noticed a research report from India that had some very provocative, relevant findings. Indian researchers had studied two groups of rats. In one group, they administered the cancer-causing aflatoxin, then fed a diet that was composed of 20% protein, a level near what many of us consume in the West. In the other group, they administered the same amount of aflatoxin, but then fed a diet that was only composed of 5% protein. Incredibly, every single animal that consumed the 20% protein diet had evidence of liver cancer, and every single animal that consumed a 5% protein diet avoided liver cancer. It was a 100 to 0 score, leaving no doubt that nutrition trumped chemical carcinogens, even very potent carcinogens, in controlling cancer.=20 =20 This information countered everything I had been taught. It was heretical to say that protein wasn't healthy, let alone say it promoted cancer. It was a defining moment in my career. Investigating such a provocative question so early in my career was not a very wise choice. Questioning protein and animal-based foods in general ran the risk of my being labelled a heretic, even if it passed the test of 'good science'. . .=20 =20 . . . What we found was shocking. Low-protein diets inhibited the initiation of cancer by aflatoxin, regardless of how much of this carcinogen was administered to these animals. After cancer initiation was completed, low-protein diets also dramatically blocked subsequent cancer growth. In other words, the cancer-producing effects of this highly carcinogenic chemical were rendered insignificant by a low-protein diet. In fact, dietary protein proved to be so powerful in its effect that we could turn on and turn off cancer growth simply by changing the level consumed. =20 Furthermore, the amounts of protein being fed were those that we humans routinely consume. We didn't use extraordinary levels, as is so often the case in carcinogen studies. =20 To purchase your copy of The China Study by Dr Colin Campbell write to Mark Bourne at traks@tpg.com.au or go to Amazon and pay more. back to top=20 =20 Thought of the Week =20 =20 Men will spend their health=20 getting wealth; then gladly pay all they have earned to=20 get health back. =20 Mike Murdoch back to top=20 =20 All You Need is Love =20 MARRIAGE KEY TO A BETTER BRITAIN =20 Marriage Tax-break Vow to Rally Martin Shipton, Western Mail, 5th Mar 2007 =20 A CULTURE change in favour of marriage is needed to save the UK from complete social breakdown, the Conservative leader David Cameron warned yesterday. =20 Speaking at the Welsh Conservative conference in Cardiff, the Tory leader said that problems of crime, violence and poverty could only be solved through placing greater emphasis on the importance of marriage. =20 His views last night received a cautious welcome from church leaders and family groups, along with a warning that solving anti-social behaviour would not be as simple as increasing matrimony rates. =20 Mr Cameron said married couples were far more likely to remain together, providing a stable base for bringing up children, and repeated his willingness to use tax incentives to make a formal union more attractive than cohabiting. =20 "This is not about saying that single parents do a bad job," he said. =20 "They do the hardest job in the world. It is simply saying that kids do best when mum and dad are both there for them. =20 "And we should not ignore one compelling fact. Nearly one in two cohabiting parents split up before their child's fifth birthday. The figure for married couples is one in 12. =20 "That is why we support marriage and, yes, we should back it with the tax system." =20 Education Secretary Alan Johnson last week said politicians should deal with child welfare, not the status of the parents' relationship, after Mr Cameron called for tax breaks for married couples. =20 Tony Blair said the argument about 'marriage versus lone parents' was not enough to address gun and gang culture. =20 But Mr Cameron said he was not concerned by criticism of his decision to herald marriage as the best cure for social problems. =20 "We are fighting to support our families with child care and more flexible working opportunities and with a commitment to marriage as the central institution in a strong society," he said. =20 "You know and I know and everyone out there knows that the big argument in British politics today is about our society. =20 "Because it's not economic breakdown that Britain faces today, but social breakdown. =20 "I think it's time we recognised that family breakdown is the central factor in the social breakdown we see in our country today." =20 Marriage has been a key theme in several of the Conservative leader's addresses since he assumed the role in December 2005. =20 At the party's main conference in Bournemouth last October, he said, "There's something special about marriage. =20 "It's not about religion. It's not about morality. It's about commitment. =20 "When you stand up there, in front of your friends and your family, in front of the world, whether it's in a church or anywhere else, what you're doing really means something." =20 He was yesterday unapologetic about its centrality to his agenda. =20 "Some people say it's wrong to single out marriage in this way," he told party activists in Sophia Gardens. =20 "I don't care. The evidence is there and we need to support it." =20 The Conservative leader's continued promotion of marriage may be seen as a risky strategy after John Major=B9s 1993 family-friendly Back To = Basics campaign backfired amid allegations of sleaze. =20 In addition to his proposals for more favourable taxation terms for married couples, Mr Cameron also wants businesses to make allowances for parents. =20 And he advocated punishing fathers who abandon their family responsibilities with the 'full force of shame'. =20 But the Rev Aled Edwards, chief executive of the church group Cytun, said a focus on marriage should form only part of a wider package to help young people, while the Rev John Owen, the Catholic chaplain of Cardiff University, said although marriage played a key role in creating stability, in many cases the reality was very different to what he called Mr Cameron's 'idealised' view. =20 Katrina Williams, of Children in Wales, said, "It's not as simple as the legality of marriage. It's all to do with the quality of relationships." =20 The speech provoked criticism from Labour for what it said was a lack of consistency in the Conservative position on tax breaks. =20 Chief Secretary to the Treasury Stephen Timms said, "The Tories are now clearly in total confusion on tax breaks for married couples. =20 "With every day that passes, David Cameron's commitment on tax breaks for marriage unravels further." back to top=20 =20 News & Info =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 Workloads take big family toll Read more-it's not a surprise: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21332864-2,00.html =20 =20 =20 =20 USA Men's / Fatherhood Speaker Coming to Australia April 2007 =20 Robert Lewis is the creator and presenter of Men's Fraternity, a three year men's training resource, guiding men on the journey to noble authentic manhood. Robert Lewis is fast becoming one of the most recognized voices in America on men's issues and is an amazing communicator and teacher in the advancement and promotion of men discovering their manhood. =20 Robert Lewis is coming to Australia in April 2007 to provide training, inspiration and resources for pastors, leaders and anyone passionate about this vital cause.=20 =20 I have three website links for you to go to for more information: http://www.crsonline.com.au/crs_s_GroupInformation.asp?sgID=3D17 =20 - for registration, venue and seminar/training information. http://www.crsforums.info/mensfraternity/ =20 - for information on Robert Lewis, Men's Fraternity and all the available resources. http://www.crsonline.com.au/crs_r_cat_Search.asp?catID=3D21 =20 all the various Men's Fraternity and Robert Lewis resources that are available. =20 If you believe in this cause that Robert is coming to speak to Australian and New Zealand about, please spread the word and pass his information around to your interested contacts. I believe there is a strong movement in our countries at this time towards empowering men and raising the bar of manhood in our communities, families and Churches. Please join us in promoting this exciting training opportunity.=20 =20 Please feel free to contact me. I look forward in assisting you in anyway possible. Let me know what you need as we are only 5 weeks away from Robert coming. Thank you! =20 Tim Smith Ph: 03 5241 3288=20 Fax: 03 5241 3290 =20 Mob: 0438 551 616 Email: tim@crsonline.com.au =20 Web: www.crsonline.com.au =20 =20 __________________________________________________ =20 Subject: Demand review of Carmody's perfomance ! =20 My letter (below) to The Australian regarding Family Court judge Tim Carmody. I encourage everyone to write in letters to demand a review of Tim Carmody's performance including the degree to which he has "imported paragraphs from previous decisions", and whether he has plagiarised, and the degree, if any, he has demonstrated bias in favour of female litigants (quite clear in at least one case). =20 I will be writing yet another letter to Chief Justice Diana Bryant citing yet one more reason to investigate Justice Carmody. =20 Cheers, Geoff =20 =20 The Australian Letters to the Editor letters@theaustralian.com.au =20 Justice Benjamin's 'uncommon' intervention regarding the decision by Family Court Justice Tim Carmody to give custody to the mother even though her boyfriend was a convicted child pornography addict, (08 Feb), raises the question of whether Justice Carmody is a competent judge. =20 One month ago, (08 Jan), The Australian reported on another decision by Justice Carmody that was later overturned, where even the ex-wife's lawyers had expressed surprise at the degree of support Justice Carmody had given her. =20 =20 More disturbing was that the three review judges found that not only did Justice Carmody rely on factors not based in law, but that he had 'imported paragraphs from previous decisions.' =20 Given that Justice Rimmer was recently found to have plagiarized and forced to step down - to the discredit of the Family Court system - perhaps a full review of Justice Carmody's past performance would be in order ? =20 Geoff Holland =20 Cairns back to top=20 =20 Dad's Prayer =20 =20 Dear God =20 You have given me a body. 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Hello Alison

Super Size Me, the story of Morgan Spurlock who survived on a diet of McDonalds for 30 days with many documented detrimental side effects, could well be considered extreme. The reality of Spurlock's story is that his diet is indicative of what many call our 'western' diet. The Western diet is high in protein (especially animal protein), high in saturated fats, refined foods and sugars but low in plant-based whole foods. Many experts are beginning to seriously question our western approach to nutrition and health in general. It seems as if a mood for change is starting to grow and not before time.

 

My own mother was a registered nurse, trained in some of the best hospitals in the world. Her own experience of our 'fix it after its broken' style of medicine caused her to look outside the square for the answers. Mum was always big on eating your fruit and finishing your vegetables. I must confess, at times I thought she was extreme, but I am still alive today, which must say something. Dad was also an innovative thinker. I can still remember him saying, "Doctors bury their mistakes."  He told me of the different approach that the Chinese have to medicine. In a village everybody pays the doctor while they are well and stops paying him when they get sick. This simple but brilliant idea rewards an approach to medicine that focuses on prevention rather than cure. As a young boy I was quite impressed with the idea and wondered why we didn't adopt the idea in the West. So I have always had an interest in health, but just like any other ordinary Aussie bloke, I have drifted along with the culture and never bothered too much with my own health.

 

Strangely enough my renewed interest in health was inspired when we began the Fatherhood Foundation in 2002 and saw the shocking state of men's health in Australia. The system and the overt discrimination against men were contributing factors to the deplorable state of men's health, but we as men were still the biggest part of the problem. As an advocate for an improvement in men's health I realised that I first had to become the change I sought.  My wife and I started going to the gym every morning. I began to take a greater interest in what I ate, and I began to notice a general improvement in my health, even though I was still overweight.

 

Last year a good friend of mine in the fatherhood movement, Mark Bourne of the Richard Hillman Foundation, gave me a book called 'The China Study'. The subtitle caught my attention, 'The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted - Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-Term Health', by Dr Colin Campbell, a professor from Cornell University, USA Š 2005 Published by BenBella Books, Dallas, USA. This book has rocked my world and challenged many cherished assumptions and malpractices. My major problem is that I am finding it very hard to disagree with the research that is presented.

 

The China Study is based on 40 years of scientific research and correlates opinions and experience from the best researchers on diet in the world. All of us have friends that have died from heart attacks or a lingering form of cancer. My own father died of coronary heart failure at 74 years of age. We accept these diseases as normal, but these same diseases are rare or nonexistent in 4 billion of the world's population who do not consume the high animal protein and highly refined food, high fat diet that we consume in the West. In some parts of rural China with a high plant food consumption and a low animal protein diet, heart disease and cancer are virtually nonexistent. The reverse is true when Chinese people followed our western dietary habits, beginning then to suffer from diseases of affluence with greatly increased levels of cancer and heart disease.

 

If you don't want to be challenged, don't read The China Study. If you are looking for health answers and have an open mind, then this is the best book on health that you could possibly read. You will find an excerpt from the forward of The China Study in the Special Feature section.

 

Lovework

 

Always do your own research. Don't blindly believe what the experts tell you. Another title for Dad is 'Family Researcher'.

 

If you and your family want to enjoy a long and healthy life, The China Study by Dr Colin Campbell is a must read. It will smash some of your most cherished notions just as it has done mine. I'm trying to figure out what to do about it, but don't worry, I will get there and so will you.

 

To order your own copy of The China Study contact Mark Bourne: traks@tpg.com.au  who will give you a great deal at a great price.

 

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Warwick Marsh  has been married to Alison for 31 years. He is the father of five children, four boys and one girl, ranging in age from 26 years to 14 years.  Warwick is a musician, songwriter, producer and public speaker who likes to think he can still laugh at himself.

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David J Schwartz

 

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Single Dads

Below is a text version of Bettina's Arndt's article, slamming FemiNasty Aunty (the ABC) for dishonesty and bias. This time, they lied by claiming that Parental Alienation was thoroughly discredited

Journalist, Bettina Arndt is one of the great supporters of children, fathers and families, and deserves our respect. The slowly dying Baby-Boomer papers (the Sydney Morning Feminist and the Melbourne Middle-Age) don't print her stuff anymore.  "The Australian" and the "West Australian" newspapers is less biased.

James ADAMS   (PartTimeParent)

www.DadsOnTheAir.net  - the radio station for

Australia's largest minority group - men.

Aunty Brainwashed on Parental Alienation   

By Bettina Arndt

4 March 2007

West Australian

 

 ABC management is supposedly watching out for bias and distortion. They should take a hard look at Radio National's Background Briefing. For one-eyed, ideologically driven agendas, this documentary series would be hard to beat. Take the recent program on parental alienation in custody cases.  

 

Talk to people and you'll find most know of acrimonious divorce cases where one parent has attempted to alienate the children from the other parent. It happens often.  

 

Usually it's the custodial mother who is influencing the children but now that more fathers are having significant access there are men behaving equally badly. Parental alienation exists -- that's a no-brainer.  

 

But what is more controversial is whether this brainwashing of children amounts to a psychological disorder, as was suggested more than 20 years ago by American psychiatrist Richard Gardner.  

 

Gardner proposed that parents deliberately programming children to hate the other parent -- Parental Alienation Syndrome or PAS -- was only one of the many complex family patterns that can result in alienated children.  

 

PAS became widely acknowledged as a common part of the divorce story.  

 

The issue of whether there really is PAS has recently come under question, with experts quarrelling over whether it makes it onto the various lists of mental disorders.  

 

That's why Background Briefing decided to weigh in, arguing that PAS has now been discredited yet claiming it is still being used in the Australian Family Court to remove children from their mothers and hand them over to abusing fathers. What a load of hogwash.  

 

Gardner did suggest that in rare cases of PAS -- perhaps 10 per cent -- the hatred and distorted thinking of the alienating parent was such that it was sometimes better to remove the child, where, for instance, a child was dragged through repeated examinations following false allegations of sexual abuse.  

 

Lawyers defending fathers against such false allegations do use Gardner's theory to argue for a change in custody, with some success in the US.  

 

But Background Briefing takes this further by digging up a dubious US expert who claimed PAS had become a cancer in their family court, resulting in experts recommending five-year-old children be handcuffed and removed from the "protective" parent and handed over to fathers who have sodomised them.  

 

Such scaremongering stories are far from the reality in the Australian courts. It is extremely rare that our courts ever rule that children be removed from custodial parents.  

 

It just doesn't happen unless there is overwhelming evidence that the parent is unfit -- as the Chief Justice Diana Bryant pointed out in the program -- but her voice was drowned out by people claiming, without any proper evidence, that she was wrong.   

 

For much of the program, Background Briefing revised the tired old issue of whether there are false claims of sexual abuse. These often are at the heart of PAS cases because the alienating parent uses them to try to discredit the other parent.  

 

It glossed over a comment by Professor Kim Oates pointing out false accusations are far higher in custody cases, where they usually stem not from children but from a parent.  

 

It suggested women are always victims and that the courts are manipulated by dangerous men keen to damage their own children.  

 

Instead of this tired old propaganda, why don't these radio producers wake up to the real news -- that children's matters are now to be largely kept out of the courts and dealt with by mediators aiming to help parents stop all these games.  

 

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Special Feature

 

The China Study

Introduction (Part 1)

 

For ten years our primary goal in the Philippines was to improve childhood malnutrition among the poor, a project funded by the US Agency for International Development. Eventually, we established about 110 nutrition 'self-help' education centres around the country.

 

The aim of these efforts in the Philippines was simple: make sure that children were getting as much protein as possible, it was widely thought that much of the childhood malnutrition in the world was caused by a lack of protein, especially from animal-based foods. Universities and governments around the world were working to alleviate a perceived 'protein gap' in the developing world.

 

In this project, however, I uncovered a dark secret. Children who ate the highest-protein diets were the ones most likely to get liver cancer! They were the children of the wealthiest families.

 

I then noticed a research report from India that had some very provocative, relevant findings. Indian researchers had studied two groups of rats. In one group, they administered the cancer-causing aflatoxin, then fed a diet that was composed of 20% protein, a level near what many of us consume in the West. In the other group, they administered the same amount of aflatoxin, but then fed a diet that was only composed of 5% protein. Incredibly, every single animal that consumed the 20% protein diet had evidence of liver cancer, and every single animal that consumed a 5% protein diet avoided liver cancer. It was a 100 to 0 score, leaving no doubt that nutrition trumped chemical carcinogens, even very potent carcinogens, in controlling cancer.

 

This information countered everything I had been taught. It was heretical to say that protein wasn't healthy, let alone say it promoted cancer. It was a defining moment in my career. Investigating such a provocative question so early in my career was not a very wise choice. Questioning protein and animal-based foods in general ran the risk of my being labelled a heretic, even if it passed the test of 'good science'. . .

 

. . . What we found was shocking. Low-protein diets inhibited the initiation of cancer by aflatoxin, regardless of how much of this carcinogen was administered to these animals. After cancer initiation was completed, low-protein diets also dramatically blocked subsequent cancer growth. In other words, the cancer-producing effects of this highly carcinogenic chemical were rendered insignificant by a low-protein diet. In fact, dietary protein proved to be so powerful in its effect that we could turn on and turn off cancer growth simply by changing the level consumed.

 

Furthermore, the amounts of protein being fed were those that we humans routinely consume. We didn't use extraordinary levels, as is so often the case in carcinogen studies.

 

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Thought of the Week

Men will spend their health

getting wealth;

then gladly pay all

 they have earned to

get health back.

 

Mike Murdoch

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All You Need is Love

 

MARRIAGE KEY TO A BETTER BRITAIN

Marriage Tax-break Vow to Rally

Martin Shipton, Western Mail, 5th  Mar  2007

 

A CULTURE change in favour of marriage is needed to save the UK from complete social breakdown, the Conservative leader David Cameron warned yesterday.

 

Speaking at the Welsh Conservative conference in Cardiff, the Tory leader said that problems of crime, violence and poverty could only be solved through placing greater emphasis on the importance of marriage.

 

His views last night received a cautious welcome from church leaders and family groups, along with a warning that solving anti-social behaviour would not be as simple as increasing matrimony rates.

 

Mr Cameron said married couples were far more likely to remain together, providing a stable base for bringing up children, and repeated his willingness to use tax incentives to make a formal union more attractive than cohabiting.

 

"This is not about saying that single parents do a bad job," he said.

 

"They do the hardest job in the world. It is simply saying that kids do best when mum and dad are both there for them.

 

"And we should not ignore one compelling fact. Nearly one in two cohabiting parents split up before their child's fifth birthday. The figure for married couples is one in 12.

 

"That is why we support marriage and, yes, we should back it with the tax system."

 

Education Secretary Alan Johnson last week said politicians should deal with child welfare, not the status of the parents' relationship, after Mr Cameron called for tax breaks for married couples.

 

Tony Blair said the argument about 'marriage versus lone parents' was not enough to address gun and gang culture.

 

But Mr Cameron said he was not concerned by criticism of his decision to herald marriage as the best cure for social problems.

 

"We are fighting to support our families with child care and more flexible working opportunities and with a commitment to marriage as the central institution in a strong society," he said.

 

"You know and I know and everyone out there knows that the big argument in British politics today is about our society.

 

"Because it's not economic breakdown that Britain faces today, but social breakdown.

 

"I think it's time we recognised that family breakdown is the central factor in the social breakdown we see in our country today."

 

Marriage has been a key theme in several of the Conservative leader's addresses since he assumed the role in December 2005.

 

At the party's main conference in Bournemouth last October, he said, "There's something special about marriage.

 

"It's not about religion. It's not about morality. It's about commitment.

 

"When you stand up there, in front of your friends and your family, in front of the world, whether it's in a church or anywhere else, what you're doing really means something."

 

He was yesterday unapologetic about its centrality to his agenda.

 

"Some people say it's wrong to single out marriage in this way," he told party activists in Sophia Gardens.

 

"I don't care. The evidence is there and we need to support it."

 

The Conservative leader's continued promotion of marriage may be seen as a risky strategy after John Majoršs 1993 family-friendly Back To Basics campaign backfired amid allegations of sleaze.

 

In addition to his proposals for more favourable taxation terms for married couples, Mr Cameron also wants businesses to make allowances for parents.

 

And he advocated punishing fathers who abandon their family responsibilities with the 'full force of shame'.

 

But the Rev Aled Edwards, chief executive of the church group Cytun, said a focus on marriage should form only part of a wider package to help young people, while the Rev John Owen, the Catholic chaplain of Cardiff University, said although marriage played a key role in creating stability, in many cases the reality was very different to what he called Mr Cameron's 'idealised' view.

 

Katrina Williams, of Children in Wales, said, "It's not as simple as the legality of marriage. It's all to do with the quality of relationships."

 

The speech provoked criticism from Labour for what it said was a lack of consistency in the Conservative position on tax breaks.

 

Chief Secretary to the Treasury Stephen Timms said, "The Tories are now clearly in total confusion on tax breaks for married couples.

 

"With every day that passes, David Cameron's commitment on tax breaks for marriage unravels further."

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News & Info

 

 

 

 

Workloads take big family toll

Read more-it's not a surprise:

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21332864-2,00.html

 

 

 

USA Men's / Fatherhood  Speaker Coming to Australia  April 2007

 

Robert Lewis is the creator and presenter of Men's Fraternity, a three year men's training resource, guiding men on the journey to noble authentic manhood. Robert Lewis is fast becoming one of the most recognized voices in America on men's issues and is an amazing communicator and teacher in the advancement and promotion of men discovering their manhood.

 

Robert Lewis is coming to Australia in April 2007 to provide training, inspiration and resources for pastors, leaders and anyone passionate about this vital cause.

 

I have three website links for you to go to for more information:

http://www.crsonline.com.au/crs_s_GroupInformation.asp?sgID=17  

- for registration, venue and seminar/training information.

http://www.crsforums.info/mensfraternity/    

- for information on Robert Lewis, Men's Fraternity and all the available resources.

http://www.crsonline.com.au/crs_r_cat_Search.asp?catID=21  

all the various Men's Fraternity and Robert Lewis resources that are available.

 

If you believe in this cause that Robert is coming to speak to Australian and New Zealand about, please spread the word and pass his information around to your interested contacts. I believe there is a strong movement in our countries at this time towards empowering men and raising the bar of manhood in our communities, families and Churches. Please join us in promoting this exciting training opportunity.

 

Please feel free to contact me. I look forward in assisting you in anyway possible.

Let me know what you need as we are only 5 weeks away from Robert coming. Thank you!

 

Tim  Smith

Ph: 03 5241 3288

Fax: 03 5241 3290 

Mob: 0438 551 616

Email: tim@crsonline.com.au  

Web: www.crsonline.com.au

 

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Subject: Demand review of Carmody's perfomance !

 

My letter (below) to The Australian regarding Family Court judge Tim Carmody.  I encourage everyone to write in letters to demand a review of Tim Carmody's performance including the degree to which he has "imported paragraphs from previous decisions", and whether he has plagiarised, and the degree, if any, he has demonstrated bias in favour of female litigants (quite clear in at least one case).

 

I will be writing yet another letter to Chief Justice Diana Bryant citing yet one more reason to investigate Justice Carmody.

 

Cheers, Geoff

 

 

The Australian

Letters to the Editor

letters@theaustralian.com.au

 

Justice Benjamin's 'uncommon' intervention regarding the decision by Family Court Justice Tim Carmody to give custody to the mother even though her boyfriend was a convicted child pornography addict, (08 Feb), raises the question of whether Justice Carmody is a competent judge.

 

One month ago, (08 Jan), The Australian reported on another decision by Justice Carmody that was later overturned, where even the ex-wife's lawyers had expressed surprise at the degree of support Justice Carmody had given her. 

 

More disturbing was that the three review judges found that not only did Justice Carmody rely on factors not based in law, but that he had 'imported paragraphs from previous decisions.'

 

Given that Justice Rimmer was recently found to have plagiarized and forced to step down - to the discredit of the Family Court system - perhaps a full review of Justice Carmody's past performance would be in order ?

 

Geoff Holland 

Cairns

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Dad's Prayer

 

Dear God

 

You have given me a body.

Help me keep your temple in good shape.

Help me move it.

Help me shake it.

Help me clean it.

Help me make it.

Most of all help me feed it.

My eyes are bigger than my stomach

and my stomach is bigger than my brain.

Help me research the truth

And put it into practise,

because it's not much fun for

my kids to watch their dad

go to an early grave

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