Author: Ian McAllister
Deadly diet lies warn you not to patronize the doctor's competitors because a successful treatment "could kill you". This is just an extreme case of the dirty tactics, lies, and half truths mentioned in last article.
Vitamin B17
This vitamin found in Apricot kernels and many other seeds including millet was so successful at curing cancer that the drug companies mounted a massive and very expensive fraud campaign to prove that it will kill you.
According to them Vitamin B17 contains cyanide that will kill you. They have even had some success in getting suppliers of this life-saving cure put in prison.
People running the scam are not interested in facts. The fact is that cobalamine is another vitamin that our bodies need and it also contains cyanide. Apricot kernels are in fact classified as very low-risk, indeed much lower risk than the chemotherapy for which the drug companies are desperate to prevent competitors. Chemotherapy does kill you, but it is never diagnosed as chemotherapy poisoning. Instead it is recorded as a death from pneumonia or whatever other complaint the chemotherapy encouraged.
I have been eating a tablespoon of apricot kernels each day for more than a dozen years and don't expect to die of cyanide poisoning.
Vitamin C
The only possible justification for the drug company myths that vitamin C can kill you is that Pauling tried injecting massive doses directly into the bloodstream of people with large advanced tumours. It killed the tumour completely...no half measures. The only trouble is that it couldn't remove the tumour, which started rotting in place. The toxins released by the rotting tumour killed the patient.
Drug companies are terrified that people will discover that injectable vitamin C is more effective than antibiotics, especially now that so many bacteria are resistant to antibiotics. Dr Bellfield, a veterinary surgeon in California injects 200000mg of injectable vitamin C into dogs to cure conditions considered by the drug companies to be incurable such as hip dysplasia and viral hepatitis. Yes C can fight viruses but antibiotics can't, so when your doctor gives you an antibiotic for viral infection his only motive is profit.
There is one tiny bit of truth in the drug company stories. C will cause diarrhoea. That is how you know not to take too much. It is a rich man's medicine if you plan to take it every day. All you do is start with 500mg three times per day. If that gives you diarrhoea cut down the quantity. If it doesn't, increase the quantity until your body tells you that it can't handle the quantity, then back off a little. So the diarrhoea is actually a useful guide, not the end of the world as the drug companies would like you to think.
Other vitamins
Water soluble vitamins aren't stored in the body, so you would find difficulty in taking a harmful amount. However fat-soluble vitamins are stored in your body. Drug companies make great play on the fact that you can be poisoned by taking too much of some vitamins.
Unless you are rich this kind of poisoning is unlikely. You can poison yourself with vitamin D by drinking too much cod liver oil. The very thought of it makes me feel sick.
Vitamin A is probably the most notorious of the deadly vitamins. A band of polar explorers died from an overdose of vitamin A as a result of gorging themselves on polar bear livers. That won't happen to me in Australia, but I could get a toxic overdose from vitamin pills. However I don't take vitamin A supplements. Instead I get an overdose of carotene (which is non-toxic) from my food, which is converted by the body into vitamin A. The overdose makes my skin look yellow, but has no dangerous side effects. How do I get the overdose? I eat one carrot and a serving of broccoli each day.
As long as you don't fall for the "more is better" idea you won't be poisoned by vitamins.
However the mineral Selenium is very dangerous. You can die from getting too little Selenium and the toxic overdose is just a little higher than the deficiency range, so the safe range is quite small. If you worked all day with an old-fashioned photocopier you could get Selenium poisoning by breathing it. If the soil in your part of the world is deficient in Selenium and you aren't threatened by photocopiers or some other source of Selenium, then eat three Brazil nuts each day to get all the Selenium you need.
Sunlight
You probably don't need me to describe the scare tactics that the drug manufacturers and makers of sun cream use. However you may live in Alaska or somewhere else that the sun cream people don't consider to be a good market. So the hoax is that if you let the sun shine on you for long you will get melanoma, which is a deadly form of skin cancer, and you will die.
Research proves that sunlight fights melanoma so the whole marketing campaign is based on a lie.
Don't use sun-creams to avoid sunburn, because they give off toxins in sunlight. Instead build up your exposure gradually in springtime and you should be able to spend as long as you like out in the summer sunshine. Your body protects itself against sunburn if you give it enough time.
If you still haven't read about the diet lies that are the biggest killers, read the earlier articles in this series. 
Next in this series (which ends by telling you how to avoid the lies for a healthy diet) you can find out about the lie that has caused the epidemic of asthma. 
