Posted on 11/29/2005 9:31:13 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Andrew, this is getting painful to watch. Surely, you don't consistently believe that anyone who has ever suffered a single failure relating to their field can be labeled a failure in their field. Someone who fails a single undergrad test is not ipso facto a failure as a student, and you know this. You've been called on your equivocation; give it up.
That's good to know. Also many alcoholics are allergic to grain, and the very drink they crave is the one made from the grain that they are allergic to.
Nice prime!
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Yes, in a pinch I might use a podiatrist for something other than feet.
And I wouldn't be wasting my time with a non-specialist. I have had a heart attack, so I wouldn't waste my time with a psychiatrist it might lead to room temperature for me.
Well, I think you misread my posts, because I do not think he lost his license. He lost a suit. In that suit, it seems to be revealed that Dr. Barrett failed to pass a board certification. It is a voluntary test. The fact that he failed it one or more times is relevant in that he seems to never have passed it although he attempted to. Had he eventually passed the certification it would be of no consequence that he failed it.
The "court testimony" we have comes from the Dr's website so we have a he said she said situation. I give equal credence to both in that case.
Apples and oranges.
I know several people who have had heart attacks. Their first contact with the medical system has been with paramedics -- firemen with training in emergency medical procedures. The next step will usually be an emergency room where the first physician is unlikely to be a cardiologist.
But I was arguing with someone who asserts your problem would cease to exist if you followed his dietary advice. I'm not sure what you are doing in the middle of this.
My cardiologist and most other doctors I have talked to, point at a dietary influence to my condition(I take lipitor and my cholesterol level is 90 - my triglycerides are high). I hate fish. As to what I am doing in this, I merely pointed out that the Dr. who headed the "quackery" site, lost a suit involving a defamation.
Ah, but the doctor who lost is the one who was suing. He has not been successfully sued for calling people quacks.
Perhaps he lacks good judgement in when to pick fights. I don't know. I don't need his opinion to know that diet is not the cause of all disease.
Well, calling people quacks is hardly something to be sued about. If that were not so, many people here would have the socks sued off of them.
Something actionable in that vein involves a known falsehood, I believe.
I would like to see the assertion "diet is the cause of all disease" pointed out to me.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1530555/posts?page=313#313
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1530555/posts?page=386#386
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1530555/posts?page=424#424
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1530555/posts?page=462#462
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1530555/posts?page=478#478
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1530555/posts?page=499#499
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1530555/posts?page=528#528
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1530555/posts?page=551#551
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1530555/posts?page=694#694
If organizations like the Discovery Institute intend to put theological concepts like ID into the science classroom, then they become fair game. There is no political correctness in science. Scientists are not nice to each other. Arguments are vicious and sometimes personal.
Folks who think religion is disrespected on these threads haven't seen anything. The gloves are on at FR.
I rather doubt that anyone associated with religion wants to see it put to the test in science classes.
We have a genetic treatment now, provided by our own immune systems. Proper diet, dump the sugar, pasta, french fries, and any manufactured drug, or cosmetic junk, cleaning products, etc, supplement calcium if necessary to achieve a near 7.0 body ph, and ALS and MS dissappear.
The "nonsense" is working for hundreds of people, Kevin Trudeau not withstanding. Live in darkness by choice.
"Nutrition will not *cure* most diseases" ---------------424
Drugs kill, real food heals. It's that simple
I said that proper nutrition cures disease. That means eating real food, like greens that are grown organically, and meat that was grass fed, and not given synthetic hormones, and raw whole dairy products that still contain the natural organisms and enzymes to digest them. Vitamin pills are an emergency stop-gap, not the whole solution, and there are more than vitamins involved. At this point there are more than 300 known bioflavinoids that are missing from junk food.
I get out the jar of mentholatum when my toe is infected, and rub a finger-full on. Usually it is ok within 4 or 5 hours. If that isn't enough, I have a bottle of oregano oil (carvacrol) that is a 20% solution in olive oil, and that has never failed on any infection that I or my family has encountered, including staph, strep throat, fungal infections, and ear infections. These were hard learned lessons; we once were foolish enough to use antibiotics, but we have learned our lessons well.
Does this seem like a bit of "do as I say and not as I do?" If he developed colon cancer, then it is likely that he failed on his advocated nutritional regemen.
He makes the Wendy's chilli finger lady look like a paragon of virtue. He has dedicated his life to preventing people from avoiding, or being cured of disease.
Food can heal simply by not preventing healing. Most 'foods' today are not accepted by the body as food. they do damage that acumulates over time, and eventually the damage is enough to cause a crisis that we call illness.
Those are the entire replies within the links you provided except for post 424. That particular answer is too long to post, but I posted the question which it answers. Nowhere in these answers is it stated that diet causes all disease, and nowhere in any of the text do you see "diet is the cause of all disease". Do a find on the above text taken from the links you provided for those words and post 424 itself. You will not find them. You made that statement up.
"Nutrition will not *cure* most diseases"
That is a lie from the pit of hell.
Nutrition is the only thing that stands a chance of curing anything, short of prayer.
I think a reasonable person, given a set of statements that diet will cure MS and ALS, and that improper diet is the cause of colon cancer, and that "Nutrition is the only thing that stands a chance of curing anything..." will conclude that improper diet is the cause of disease.
ALS is an hereditary disorder. Editor has said it will clear up with proper diet. He was responding to a general statement about hereditary disorders, so it is reasonable to assume he was asserting proper diet will clear up any hereditary disorder.
So is the tendency for Type II diabetes. Endocrinologists will first recommend dietary control.
Readers will also note that an infected toe is an example of a disease. This was not treated by a dietary change nor was it attributed to a dietary cause. External medications were used to cure the disease.
Contradicted by Editor's assertion that "Nutrition is the only thing that stands a chance of curing anything, short of prayer."
I seem to have given Editor too much credit for consistency.
If you go back over my posts you will not find anything that denies the value of diet and nutrition. Nor any excessive support for the AMA or drug companies. I simply think it is dangerous nonsense to say that diet is the only effective treatment for disease.
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