Now in it's 3rd edition, the book, How Not To Take Medicine informs us how we
can naturally fight disease without resorting to drugs and medication, along with
valuable tips that should help us to reach the 120 year life span for which we are
designed - in style, good health and enjoyment.
Dieting fallacies about cholesterol, margarine and eggs, are a few of the many
medical myths dispelled by Medical Research Scientist, Sandy Weeks AIMS,
MISPO, MNYASc.
Easy to understand, using logic and humour, How Not To Take
Medicine throws new light on old and recent trends, that actually contribute
towards the disease process, rather than preventing it, as is often assumed.
Insights into nutrition and diet, food additives, and our environment explore a
picture emerging that suggests why our most common, yet most preventable,
disease processes continue to spiral in the Western world. As cancer has now
surpassed heart disease as our nation's biggest killer, a chapter in this book is
entirely devoted to cancer prevention, and its management for those who have
already brushed shoulders with it. It explains the cancer process, what it is, how it
happens, and the factors that fight and prevent it.
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CONTENTS:
1 Introduction
2 The disease barrier
3 A cold is 'flu?
4 Tailored to suit
5 The power of water
6 Beauty's fading image
7 The heart and hypertension
8 Varicose veins
9 A handy pair of strainers
10 The prostate enigma
11 The liver
12 A couple of windbags
13 A bundle of nerves
14 The insufferable headache
15 Oh, mah achin' bones!
16 Osteoporosis |
17 Arthritis
18 The pancreas
19 The role of our gut - and its temperament
20 The advantages of food - and where it's found
21 Cholesterol's contentions
22 The battle of the bulge
23 Cellulite
24 Food additives
25 Food irradiation - is it a good thing?
26 Preventing cancer
27 Microwave ovens
28 The alternative approach
29 A disturbing snippet of history
30 Controlling our stock
31 Father Time |
One of the first duties of a physician is to educate the masses not to
take medicine.
- WILLIAM OSLER
INTRODUCTION
The chemical constituents of the human body used to rate a
monetary value of five Australian pounds. Obviously, that was quite a
while ago, at least before 1966 anyway, but all this time later and
taking those dreadful inflationary years into account, its chemical
worth is still reputed to be in the vicinity of only ten dollars. Does that
mean in real terms, we've lost value? Pounds might have turned into
dollars, in fact twice as many if I remember the conversion to metric
from imperial, so my current line of reasoning follows much along the
same lines. My pounds have also doubled in those years, so it's logical
to presume that my chemical dollar has too, regardless of what the
chemical gurus may claim.
After all, what really is the human body anyway? An assorted
collection of pipes, tubes and some very twee electrical wiring. Just
add water and fuel, and there you have it. A little oversimplified
perhaps, but let's not split hairs. We can do that anytime.
But as soon as all of the plumbing is in place and the final nut
tightened, begins our downfall into abuse and over-indulgence.
Eventually we even get uptight about what our neighbours think of us
and hide our pizza boxes and wine cartons in the bottom of the
garbage can so that no one knows that we do what they do. Anyway,
what do they have that we don't? Probably more problems, but they're
not going to let us in on that one, unless of course, they want to
borrow our money. Instead, we take inverted compliments to heart,
stuff ourselves full of doubtful substances, and worry ourselves silly
because we look nothing like the glossy fashion magazines say we
should. None of our friends do either, but there are days when we
have trouble seeing beyond our own reflection......................
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