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Food Is Medicine

Food Is Medicine
MORE than 2,000 years ago Hippocrates wrote as follows:

‘… it appears to me necessary to every physician to be skilled in nature, and to strive to know, if he would wish to perform his duties, what man is in relation to the articles of food and drink, and to his other occupations, and what are the effects of each of them to every one.

‘Whoever does not know what effect these things produce upon a man, cannot know the consequences which result from them.

‘Whoever pays no attention to these things, or paying attention, does not comprehend them, how can he understand the diseases which befall a man? For, by every one of these things a man is affected and changed this way and that, and the whole of his life is subjected to them, whether in health, convalescence, or disease. Nothing else, then, can be more important or more necessary to know than these things.’

It is strange that, although these words were written so long ago, it is only within the last quarter of a century that we have begun to pay attention to ‘what man is in relation to the articles of food and drink’, to ‘know what effect these things produce upon a man’, and, ‘to understand the diseases which befall a man’ in consequence of them.

I had not read this book but this datum from it totally validates the theory that it is not the germ but the terrain that is the principle determinant of wellness versus ill health. Keep the body exercised and well nourished and the frame of mind positive and you are more than half way there in my opinion!

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They Said These Were Safe Too

They Said These Were Safe Too
Why should we trust them about vaccines?
From Mike Stephenson (I’m sure he won’t mind my sharing)
1.3 million people went to U.S. emergency rooms in 2014 due to adverse prescription drug effects. Of these 124,000 died (about 10%). That means 1 in 2500 Americans died as a result of taking a prescription drug in a 12-month period. That’s almost one 9/11 event per week, all year long.
More than half of all Americans regularly take a prescription medication and each of these take four prescriptions on average.
I found the aforementioned data in the September issue of Consumer Reports which came in today’s mail. They cited the CDC and the FDA as sources.
Seems like a wild violation of the Hippocratic Oath of “First do no harm.”
I wonder how many people have been rushed to ERs due to adverse reactions from vitamins and nutritional supplements? According to Mercola.com, in 2010 there were 60 billion doses of nutritional supplements and ZERO deaths! Dr. Mercola cited the U.S. National Poison Data System’s annual report.
A telling tale!
And the TGA here in Australia want to restrict complimentary medicines?
Sounding more and more like monopolistic practices to me.
Does not appear to have anything to do with protecting the public.

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Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys

Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys
I’ve been verbally sharing this old Polish saying for a while but here it is a a meme! While it is very beneficial (for you and them) to be compassionate to your fellow man it is not worthwhile allowing their clouds to rain on your parade! Help by all means but do not take their pain aboard.

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Is What You Are Told True?

Cecile posted a wonderful quote this week from Carl Sagan that was never so apt as when applied to those scammed by the medical profession into thinking that vaccinations were the result of the drop in infectious diseases:
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
There is a quote to the same effect, attributed to Mark Twain but allegedly unproven as penned by him.
“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
Despite the disputes over it’s authenticity, it is, unfortunately, observably true!
So next time somebody presents you with data conrary to what you have previously been told, it might pay to stop and fact check the contrary data. And relying on daya presented by an “authority” as being more valid is very often a lazy and incorrect choice. Especially if they are asking you to trust their authority rather than actually looking for your self.
You cannot live long enough in one lifetime to learn all you need to know by direct observation, so you have to take in a great deal of data second hand, that is written by someone else who observed. But you do have to exercise more judgement with second hand data than you do with that you directly observe. One thing you have to ask is, “Is there a slant being given, is there a vested interest being forwarded with this data.”