MY FRIEND Tom thought
he’d had it.

He couldn't waik more than a
few paces on‘account of the pains’.
in his legs caused by blocked arter-
ies. In Lions Gate Hospital, one of
the best surgeons said nothing
. could be done for him. An opera-
tion would be too dangerous.

Well. Tom was with me on a
recent trip to Switzerland, hopping
around the Bernese Oberland
mountains like a gazelle. The. pain
is gone. He's the proverbial new
man,

He was cured by chelation ther-
apy, which the regular medical pro-
_fession regards as quackery. In fact,

“his surgeon told him he would be
wasting his money on it.

The American College for
Advancement in Medicine, which
is in California, states that chela-
tion therapy is “a safe, effective

.-and relatively inexpensive treat-/

ment to restore blood flow in vic-
tims of atherosclerosis (hardening

of the arteries) without surgery.”

~~ Chelation enthusiasts say that

surgeons have a vested interest in <
sticking to the knife. Certainly,
there is big money in heart surgery
:, and related operations.
~ |" Heart surgery is immensely
costly.In B.C., it costs medicare
~ over $9,000 just for the time you
will spend in hospital. On top of -
“| that there's the cost of the opera-
a tion, which, 1 am told, comes to

1. on the
other hand

another $20,000.
, About 15,000 operations ‘a year
are done in this province, so you

‘can figure it,out for yourself, And

don’t think I’m knocking it. | had a
successful bypass operation three
years ago.

‘. Chelation, in contrast, costs
$105 4 session and most people
need about 20'sessions, Tom has’
‘hid 50, so he’s forked out about
/$5,000, But he would still have

“(done it even if it had meant selling

his car. Better that than to have to
hobble around the house, he said.
Or not hobble at all.

Chelation is not covered by

. medicare, even though its advo- ,

cates point out it would be cheaper
for the taxpayer.

How is it donc? A doctor i injects
into the patient's veins a ‘substance

- Aggravated assault

sentence for knifing

WAY 35- -YEAR- OLD - “North
. Vancouver man was jailed for

15 months on June 2 after orig-”
vinally being charged with the’
~# attempted murder ‘of his base-

o ment-suite tenant.

By Anna Marie D ‘Angelo ‘
: News Reporter.

“not -guilty to the attempted, murder

The charge followed the May 26,

1994 stabbing of Peter Pisarkski in:
: “11:30 p.m. The landlord and tenant

-North Vancouver District.*
oseph’”. pleaded | guilty toa
"reduced : charge: of “aggravated
assault
. Supreme Court.

He: was sentenced at the begin:.
ning of :Jt une by, Mr. Justice David

Campbell,

: (A charge of ageravated assault

covers life endangerment. ;

«. According’. to the.- North
Vancouver RCMP.. Joseph -.and
Pisarkski, 37, had an ongoing. dis-
pute over rent payment. ©

On the. night he’ was’ stabbed...”

Pisarkski had called police to the

« house ‘in the: 100- block, of Takaya :

Place. ; :

" Pisarkski claimed some ‘of his
: a personal property had been thrown

‘Christopher Carl Joseph pleadéd B

out: the windows, according’ to a
‘North’ Vancouver “RCMP

‘spokesman. .

. Joseph was ‘not there when
police arrived. He returned at about

had gone outside t to talk before the

~ stabbing.
‘on March 30 in B.C..%.
“upper, chest.

Pisarkski Was ; stabbed in ‘the
The. deep’. wound
required 120 Stitches: say police. ;

Joseph also received three years’
‘probation in connection with the
reduced charge. if

DEREK A. CAVE —

Trial Lawyer :

_ Get the settlement

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100 Park Royal, West Van. :

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called ethylene diamine tetra-acetic
acid, or EDTA, That removes
harmful metals that build into a
plaque, which in turn causes high
blood pressure, hardening of the
arteries and other nasty things,
There are a few failures, however,
perhaps 5%,

With chelation, “plaques smooth
over and shrink, allowing more
blood to puss. Arterial walls:
become softer and more pliable,

-allowing easier expansion, and sci-

entific studies have proven that
blood flow increuses .... 2 states a
Paper put out in the U.S. ;

Watching Tom dance around the
Swiss mountains persuaded me that
chelation works.

There have been some extraordi-/
nary examples of success. /

In England, a British”

Broadcasting Corporation

researcher fad Tom's trouble and
faced amputation of both legs, She
took chelation therapy and is cured.

In B.C. Croft Woodruff, the
president of the EDTA Association
of B.C., has been promoting chela-
tion for years

He has @ vested interest, tou.
since he is in the vitamin business,
which is related to chelation. But
there’s no reason to believe his
approach is anything but honest.

Woodruff reports that the
National Health Service in the U.K.

will pay for the treatment if itis

recommended to a local health

_authority by a doctor, It is also cov-

ered in Germany. In Holland, pri-
vate insurance firms will pay for it.
In the U.S. it is recognized in South
Dakota, North Carolina,
Washington State and Alaska.
Seven doctors do it in B.C. but

they are frowned on by the B.C.
College of Physicians and:
Surgeons, One of them is being

“investigated” by the college even -
though no complaints have been
laid against him. He plans court
action. ©

In Alberta, the legislature rec-
ommended two years ago that the
medical profession aecept chelation
and the Alberta government is
funding a clinical trial of the ¢-
process, But nothing like that is
happening in B.C,

That's my good deed for the
year. If you want more information
you can call 327-3889,

© . e

U wrote recently that the ’ .
Jungfrau was the highest mountain
in Europe. ft isn’t., The highest is

_ Mount Elbrus ia the Caucasus, at

18,480 feet. What’ put me off was:
the Jungfrau slogan, “The Top of »
Europe.” But that applies to access
by rail. Still, go lo the bottom of

the class, Collins. Your schioo!- ;
tcachers would be ashamed of you.”

~ Helen & Don Preston ‘didn't compromise an
wo “when it came to their new bome i.
you shouldn't either. There's s more to. life at Ridge Park Gardens