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World-renowned doctors
speak about illness, medicine and food as best medicine and
natural treatment
The following testimonies by many world renowned doctors attest
to the eternal truth that food is your best medicine
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Hippocrates
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● Thy food shall be thy remedy.
● Nature is the true healer. The
physician is only nature's assistant.
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Dr. Oliver Wendell
Holmes
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I firmly believe that if the whole
materia medica as now being used could be sunk to the
bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and
all the worse for the fish.
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Dr. Bernard Jensen
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● There is a place for drugs,
surgery, osteopathy, chiropractic and homeopathy. But unless
toxins are eliminated and proper nutrients are provided, healing
can not take place.
● We do not GET a disease. We
CREATE a disease by reducing our natural immunity through
wrong eating, thinking and living. All diseases are curable. But
not all patients are curable. we have to focus on the patient
rather than the disease.
● Management of chronic diseases
is a medical euphemism. It is not curing disease, but
controlling it with the aid of suppressive drugs. This type of
response to disease halts any progress towards healing. It
serves only to make the patient more comfortable, while allowing
him to progress to the degenerative stage, postponing the day of
reckoning. Chronic conditions denied proper care will inevitably
regress into ever greater chronic illnesses until they become
degenerative.
● The basic conditions which lead to disease are either nutrient
deficiencies or toxic accumulations in the body. |
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Henry G. Bieler, M.D.
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● I began to suspect the close
relationship between health and proper eating habits when, early
in my career as an overworked young doctor, my own health broke
down. I have always been a man of great curiosity and as I
investigated deeply the chemistry of food along new lines,
I came to the conclusion that I, personally must give up the use
of drugs and henceforth rely solely on food as medicine. It was
not long until, after repeated verified results, I discarded
drugs in treating my patients. My colleagues, at the time,
thought I had lost my mind. But time has only strengthened my
belief.
● I stopped using drugs in
treating my patients when I began to reexamine an old axiom
which is that nature is the true healer, using the body's
natural defenses. The physician's role is to assist in that
healing in cooperation with nature and not in replacing nature.
Nature cures slowly just like trees grow slowly and not suddenly
like chemical drug marketers claim.
● We tend to think of health as
something that comes in a capsule purchased over the counter in
a drugstore, instead of as a state which we attain by following
the laws of nature.
● People came to me who were disappointed in orthodox medical
treatment-especially the stimulation drugs with which they were
whipping the tired horses imprisoned in their bodies. They came
to me for dietary reform usually because they had found out as
they went along that food had something to do with their
disorders and symptoms. |
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Dr. Donald Bodeen
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All diseases are related to
increased levels of toxic substances in the body.
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Herbert Ratner, M.D.
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● We are the world's wealthiest
country-yet one the unhealthiest. we are flabby, overweight, and
have a lot of dental caries, fluoridation notwithstanding. Our
gastrointestinal system operates like a spluttering gas engine.
We cannot sleep; we cannot get going when we are awake. we have
neuroses; we have high blood pressure. Neither our hearts nor
our heads last as long as they should. Coronary disease at the
peak of life has hit epidemic proportions. Suicide is one of the
leading causes of death (fourth between the ages of of fifteen
and forty four). We suffer from a plethora of the diseases of
civilization.
● Modern man ends up a vitamin-taking, antacid-consuming,
barbiturate-sedated, aspirin-alleviated, Benzedrine-stimulated,
psychosomatically diseased, surgically despoiled animal.
Nature's highest product turns out to be a fatigued,
peptic-ulcerated, tense, headachy, over-stimulated, neurotic,
tonsil-less and appendix-less creature. |
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John Shaw Billings
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It is important to remember
that the mere introduction of germs into the living organism
does not ensure their multiplication or the production of
disease. The condition of the organism itself has much influence
on the result. Pasteur has certainly made a hasty generalization
in declaring that the only condition which determines an
epidemic is the greater or less abundance of germs. |
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Dr. Ted Cooper,
Former US assistant health secretary |
Though scientists do not all agree
till now on the relationship between illness and
nutrition, but evidence is mounting and there is a general
consensus that the quality and quantity of foods we
consume in our affluent society and our sedentary lifestyle are
the main factors causing many forms of cancer, cardiovascular
and other degenerative diseases.
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Dr. Earnest Wiender,
Director NIH, New York
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Breast cancer, the biggest killer
of women among all cancers, exists where high saturated-fat
consumption is present. It is relatively uncommon among American
women of Puerto-Rican decent whose diet contains little
saturated fats and cholesterol.
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Dr. Bernard Jensen &
Dr. Donald Bodeen
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What most people do not know is
that the only thing that drugs do is alleviate the symptoms, and
that they do not help in regaining the body's health and well
being. Drugs do not cure. Nature and nutrition do.
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Nei Ching or The
yellow emperor's book of internal medicine
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There are 3 kinds of medicines.
The lowest is poisonous, the
middle is a little poisonous and the highest is not poisonous.
The lowest cures 6 out of every 10
diseases and leaves poison in the body.
The middle cures 7 of every 10
diseases and leaves a little poison in the body.
Even the highest cures only 8-9 of
every 10 diseases.
Diseases that cannot be cured with medicine, can only be cured with food. |
