Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the Source of True Healing

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Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the Source of

True Healing

 

 

 

Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the Source of True Healing

by John Robbins

Although the nation spends $1 trillion each year on medical care,

many in our country cannot afford the most basic coverage and the

toll in human suffering from degenerative diseases continues to

rise. In his rousing and inspiring style, John Robbins, author of

the acclaimed best-seller Diet for a New America, turns his

attention to the national debate on health care, taking an epic look

at the human and financial consequences of the polarization of

traditional and alternative medicine.

 

Calling for nothing short of a revolution in the basic beliefs on

which health care is based, he convincingly demonstrates the

enormous human and financial costs of the polarization of

conventional and alternative medicine. Although Americans spend far

more money on medical care than any other people in the world, many

of us cannot afford the most basic coverage; we rank 25th among the

world's nations in infant mortality; the toll in human suffering

from degenerative disease continues to rise; the danger from

virulent communicable diseases is increasing daily; and, meanwhile,

women are growing increasingly frustrated with the care they receive

from a male-dominated system. There are answers to these problems,

and Reclaiming Our Health presents a brilliant, refreshing, and

uplifting new vision of what health care in America might be as well

as practical solutions for us as individuals and for a health-care

system gone awry.

 

Robbins attacks the heart of health care controversy: the increasing

polarization of conventional and alternative medicine. His

discussion provides a strong vision of how to remedy a failing

health care system through the integration of different self-care

and management techniques, from diet modifications to relaxation

techniques.

 

Midwest Book Review

 

 

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CANCER MISTREATMENT?

Percentage of cancer patients whose lives are predictably saved by

chemotherapy - 3%

 

Conclusive evidence (majority of cancers) that chemotherapy has any

positive influcence on survival or quality of life - none.

 

Percentage of oncologists who said if they had cancer they would not

participate in chemotherapy trials due to its " ineffectiveness and

its unacceptable toxicity " - 75%

 

Percentage of people with cancer in the U.S. who receive

chemotherapy - 75%.

 

Company that accounts for nearly half of the chemotherapy sales in

the world - Bristol-Meyers Squibb.

 

 

Chairman of the board of Bristol-Meyers - Richard L. Gelb.

 

Mr. Gelb's other job: vice chairman, board of overseers, board of

managers, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, World's largest

private cancer treatment and research center.

 

 

Chairman, Memorial Sloan-Kettering's board of overseers, board of

managers - John S. Reed.

 

 

Reed's other job - director, Philip Morris (tobacco company).

 

, Ivax, Inc., a prominent chemotherapy company - Samuel

Broder.

 

 

Broder's other job (until 1995) - executive director, National

Cancer Institute.

 

 

from Reclaiming Our Health: Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing

the Source of True Healing by John Robbins (publisher: H.J. Kramer,

P.O. Box 1082, Tiburon, CA 94920)

 

http://www.all-natural.com/reclaim.html#CANCER%20MISTREATMENT