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JOE · 01-09-2007, 05:43 PM

I don't know and am certainly not clever enough to offer an opinion here but I do know that if I were diagnosed with something so frightening, I would eat horse ************ if I thought it would make me better.

I have heard the efficacy of apricot kernels myself from several different sources but it could just be a huge urban myth that has been promulgated on the net and gotten out of hand.

But it couldn't harm if you had a terminal diagnosis to try in my opinion, unless it was contraindicated with the allopathic treatment. Doctors are as guilty as anybody, make no bones about it, they are only human and whilst they are trained in looking at statistical analysis, we all know how stats can be made to lie and I believe laziness and indoctrination, make them as guilty as anybody at looking at the world from a blinkered (allopathic) viewpoint.
Only today, I heard an elderly doctor with whom I work comment to a lady with whom we work, that she would be more at risk from osteoporosis because she doesn't like milk. This struck me as strange as from what little I have read, calcium can be obtained from numerous sources (even in the western diet) such as fish, green leafy vegetables NOT ONLY MILK

In fact some sources I have read (and again, I am not stating I am right or the sources I quote are) state that milk can actually strip the body of calcium as quickly as it delivers it. The argument was that the Japanese up until the last 20-30 years, hardly had any incidence of Osteoporosis and it has been an increasing problem since their diet was westernised and the introduction of dairy products increased.

Who knows, could be a number of factors......but this guy stating this with such positive assertion, was shocking as he is undoubtedly an increditbly clever man, yet even I with my piss poor education and arrogance, wouldn't commit myself to such an opinion if I thought there was any doubt. Then again, he is a doctor and maybe he has researched it but I just intuitively felt that this intelligent man was repeating the Dairy mantra verbatim without giving it much thought. I might be wrong but I suspect that many MD's do this over numerous matters, whether out of laziness or pressure of work or the repeated indoctrination of the drug and medicine industries and even as far back as their initial training. There is also the fear of losing their license to practice if they offer any treatment that might be considered heretical from the allopathic and drug centred norm

Wewwwwww

bored even myself there!

01-09-2007, 05:43 PM	#11 (permalink)
JOE Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Posts: 42	I don't know and am certainly not clever enough to offer an opinion here but I do know that if I were diagnosed with something so frightening, I would eat horse ************ if I thought it would make me better. I have heard the efficacy of apricot kernels myself from several different sources but it could just be a huge urban myth that has been promulgated on the net and gotten out of hand. But it couldn't harm if you had a terminal diagnosis to try in my opinion, unless it was contraindicated with the allopathic treatment. Doctors are as guilty as anybody, make no bones about it, they are only human and whilst they are trained in looking at statistical analysis, we all know how stats can be made to lie and I believe laziness and indoctrination, make them as guilty as anybody at looking at the world from a blinkered (allopathic) viewpoint. Only today, I heard an elderly doctor with whom I work comment to a lady with whom we work, that she would be more at risk from osteoporosis because she doesn't like milk. This struck me as strange as from what little I have read, calcium can be obtained from numerous sources (even in the western diet) such as fish, green leafy vegetables NOT ONLY MILK In fact some sources I have read (and again, I am not stating I am right or the sources I quote are) state that milk can actually strip the body of calcium as quickly as it delivers it. The argument was that the Japanese up until the last 20-30 years, hardly had any incidence of Osteoporosis and it has been an increasing problem since their diet was westernised and the introduction of dairy products increased. Who knows, could be a number of factors......but this guy stating this with such positive assertion, was shocking as he is undoubtedly an increditbly clever man, yet even I with my piss poor education and arrogance, wouldn't commit myself to such an opinion if I thought there was any doubt. Then again, he is a doctor and maybe he has researched it but I just intuitively felt that this intelligent man was repeating the Dairy mantra verbatim without giving it much thought. I might be wrong but I suspect that many MD's do this over numerous matters, whether out of laziness or pressure of work or the repeated indoctrination of the drug and medicine industries and even as far back as their initial training. There is also the fear of losing their license to practice if they offer any treatment that might be considered heretical from the allopathic and drug centred norm Wewwwwww bored even myself there!