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World-renowned doctors speak on illness,
medicine and
food as best medicine
The following testimonies by many world renowned
doctors attest to the eternal truth that food is your best medicine.
Hippocrates
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Thy food shall be thy remedy.
● Nature is the true healer. The physician is only
nature's assistant.
Dr. Oliver Wendell
Holmes
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.
Dr. Bernard
Jensen
● 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.
Henry G. Bieler, M.D.
● 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.
Dr. Donald Bodeen
All diseases are related to increased levels of
toxic substances in the body.
Herbert Ratner,
M.D.
● 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.
John Shaw
Billings
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.
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.
Dr. Earnest Wiender,
Director NIH, New York
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.
Dr. Bernard Jensen &
Dr. Donald Bodeen
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.
Nei Ching or
The yellow emperor's book of internal medicine
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.
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