PDF Ebook The Health Revolution by Philip Bate PhD
Welcome to the healthcare revolution. By reading this book, you've joined the revolution, and you won't be as satisfied with "medical science" and present healthcare methods as you may have been in the past. Along the way, you'll also learn a lot about your own (and others) health and how to improve it in many ways that your medical doctor didn't learn in medical school - more's the pity.
Why a revolution? Any revolution starts because the people involved simply get fed up with the status quo, and the only way to change it is to revolt. Healthcare is no different. The people in these United States are fed up with the present healthcare system, and we're slowly changing it. It's not a bloodless revolution because too many people are dying from lack of knowledge on the part of physicians. President Clinton tried to change it dramatically for the better (it couldn't be much worse), and failed because of political lobbies. We, the public, can change it, but it will take time.
Medicine is in a horrible state in the US. We spend twice as much as any other nation on our health industry - over 12% of our gross national product. We are the most technologically advanced nation in the world. Our doctors make more money than any others, yet they know less about nutrition and alternate healthcare than European doctors. They are actually educationally handicapped.
Given this technological superiority, how is that we are 12th in health statistics? Every other major civilized nation, including all those with socialized medicine, is ahead of us. Including Russia! (They may not have won the space race, or the Cold War, but they're ahead of us in the health race).
How did we come to this sorry pass? One part of the answer is that we are a "drug taking" society. We have come to expect our doctors (aided and abetted by the drug industry) to give us a magic pill for everything. That's our fault - not the doctors. Madison Avenue drug advertising hasn't helped.
Perhaps the biggest factor of all - medical doctors simply have no learned knowledge of the nutritional needs of humans other than a very superficial one. They spend thousands of hours in medical school studying pharmacology and almost no time on vitamins, minerals, and other nutritional needs. Would you ask your doctor about your car engine? Of course not! He isn't trained in car engines. So why even ask your medical doctor about vitamins, minerals, and nutrition. The odds are that what he does "know" is largely wrong.
This situation is made worse by the complete dependence on drug advertising by all US medical journals. No editor of such dares to print an article or professional paper that might even suggest that nutrition may be better than drugs. Advertisers would stop advertising, and he'd be fired. Thus, physicians can't learn about the basics of nutrition in medical school, and their primary source of continuing education is biased against their learning anything positive about it after graduation! In fact, medical journals have often published so-called research on vitamins and minerals that is completely false and misleading. You may have heard that excess vitamins are dangerous. That can be true under certain very limited circumstances, but excess water can be dangerous. Maybe you've heard that vitamin C can cause kidney stones. This is a favorite of mine, because vitamin C never caused any stones - it actually cures kidney stones.
CONTENTS
DEDICATION
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1 - Janie (schizophrenia -- megavitamins)
CHAPTER 2 - Jose (schizophrenia -- wheat allergy)
CHAPTER 3 - David (schizophrenia -- copper)
CHAPTER 4 - Gordon (bedwetting -- allergy)
CHAPTER 5 - Bobby (hyperactivity -- allergy)
CHAPTER 6 - Monica, Barbara, & Sue (phobias -- sugar handling)
CHAPTER 7 - Al, Ray & Herb/Jackie (pseudochizophrenia -- sugar)
CHAPTER 8 - Elizabeth & Nikki (depression -- allergy)
CHAPTER 9 - Kathy & Judy (schizophrenia -- the "pill")
CHAPTER 10 - Bob, Dave, and Reggie (cancer -- vitamin C)
CHAPTER 11 - Samantha, John & Mark (toxic minerals and thyroid)
CHAPTER 12 - Donny (obesity - allergy)
CHAPTER 13 - Harold & Maude (sex therapy)
CHAPTER 14 - Virginia (senility - megavitamins)
CHAPTER 15 - Sunny and an ex-wife (diabetes & hypertension)
CHAPTER 16 - Schizophrenia & Depression
CHAPTER 17 - Vitamins and Minerals
CHAPTER 18 - Allergies
AFTERWORD
BIBLIOGRAPHY
GLOSSARY
APPEMDIX A - Dr. Mandells Self Quiz for Allergies
APPEMDIX B - Common foods containing wheat and corn
APPEMDIX C - Dr. Bate's individual nutritional quiz
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