Percy Weston, a South Australian farmer, in this book relates his experiences with phosphorous and super-phosphate fertilizers. In separate and seemingly unrelated encounters, he came to discover that phosphorous played a common role in those undesirable incidents. At the age of six, he became ill after inhaling fumes from phosphorous-impregnated match-heads (before safety matches). He was then exposed to phosphorous-impregnated rabbit baits on the farm. There was then the incident where an experiment involving phosphorous went wrong, and his school mate collapsed in the science laboratory.
Later in life, as a farmer, Weston, like others in the region, got involved in growing tobacco which embraced the administration of immense applications of superphosphate fertilizers and at rates as high as a 1000 pounds per acre. Subsequently, Weston observed adverse health of the sheep in his farm; an arthritic condition which affected the knees and cancerous lesions growing on the ears.
He then transferred his sheep onto pasture land where there was no superphosphate treatment. Following the transfer, he observed the recovery to health of his sheep.
Weston then decided to move some of his sheep back onto the original treated paddock and found that they soon developed similar negative health conditions once again. He again then removed these sheep from that paddock and returned them onto the untreated pasture. There, they recovered again. That was how he saw the undeniable mode in this experiment with his sheep.
Weston was again afflicted with arthritis at a later stage and a cancerous tumour had developed on his hand. Remembering his earlier encounters with the inclusion of phosphorous and his experiment with his sheep, Weston started to wonder whether a reduction in phosphorous intake would have any effect on his health. Therefore, like Hafer, he went on to cultivate a low phosphate diet plus an intake of alkaline minerals such as magnesium and potassium, similarly to the experiment with his sheep where he used mineral licks of such supplements, of which Weston believed would counteract the harmful effects of phosphorous. What proceeded was over Weston's expectations. Not only had his Arthritis improved and gradually ceased to exist, his Cancer Tumor had also dried up and broken away from his hand.
Weston continued on with his low phosphate diet for several decades. He was so convinced that exposure to and consumption of phosphorous/phosphate led to severe health problems.
In his later life, yet again, he encountered similar health conditions when his whole district was sprayed extensively with organo-phosphate ingredients.
References:
Weston, Percy: "Cancer: Cause & Cure", Book Bin Publishing Pty Ltd, Adelaide, 2000; ISBN 0 646 40313 3.
Weston, Percy: "Cancer Fighting Foods", Book Bin Publishing Pty Ltd, Adelaide, 2001.
{FYI, Agent Orange, used during Vietnam War, was also an ORGANO-PHOSPHATE herbicide}
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