Medical Health Food
Medical cures are often possible with nothing more than health foods. Some people say that the doctor's record of preventive medicine is disgraceful, but I don't agree. Doctors only get paid when people are sick so why should they prevent you getting sick? It would be bad business. Eat the right foods to become healthy.
Medical means "related to the art of healing" according to the dictionary. You don't heal healthy people. You heal people who have failed to prevent getting sick. Of course traffic and other accidents can make you sick, but are preventable if everyone is alert and not on drugs.
This site will concentrate on natural organic medical treatments of disease, instead of poisonous drugs.
Most modern diseases such as diabetes and obesity can be prevented by proper diet. So do you have to go to university for information about medical nutrition? No. In fact these are propaganda machines for the drug companies.
Why doesn't the doctor teach you how to prevent disease?
When I was studying Agriculture at Aberdeen University the medical students did the same nutrition course as we did, attending the same lectures and doing the same laboratory work. I wondered at the time why the medical students were learning about animal nutrition instead of getting nutritional information about humans. Then I discovered that the nutrition course that we were doing was the only nutritional information that the future doctors would receive in their course.
Now I know the reason. Medicine is a business run by drug companies. We needed nutritional information to make money from animals, but a doctor only makes money when you are sick, so the drug companies that fund the medical training and research don't want doctors to know about prevention. That's why we had to memorize all the information about minerals and vitamins as it applied to livestock.
Medical Poisons
Conventional medicine consists of giving you poisonous drugs, at least one of whose side effects is beneficial. Alternative medicine prefers to use non-poisonous and low-poison health care.
A good example is the herb ephedra used to raise energy and lose weight. This is fairly safe. The drug companies concentrated it many times until it was a dangerous poison and called it ephedrine. When it killed some athletes the drug pushers managed to get ephedra banned even though it was the ephedrine that did the poisoning.
Healthy Balance
The food pyramid was invented by food manufacturers back in the days when minerals and vitamins were all they knew about medical health care. It was never intended to be a natural part of holistic medicine, but was intended to promote the sale of carbohydrate foods that were cheap and easy to manufacture, with a large profit margin.
Now nutritionists know a little bit about the thousands of plant nutrients - enough to know that nobody has a good enough memory to memorize nutritional information as we had to do at University. One nutritionist commented that the pyramid was upside down. Shortly after that the new version came out, which seems to be designed to confuse you and avoid committing the manufacturers to anything.
Cooking for health
One thing that we did learn, was that cooking kills many of the nutrients - even the ones that were known at the time. So raw food is best, except that parasites in raw meat can kill you.
When choosing your recipes for medical reasons make sure that you cook food for as little time as possible. Also use organic fruit and vegetables. Even if the drug company claims about organic produce being no more nutritious were true, there are fewer poisons on and in organically grown produce.
Medical problems described
I am starting this medical nutrition section with details about natural organic ways to treat asthma, simply because a friend asked me if there was a good holistic way fight her asthma. I had really been intending to start off with articles about cancer and heart problems and diabetes and obesity which are the problems most obviously mismanaged by doctors.
And that is the key word - mismanaged. You'll find that the healthy diet for these diseases is very similar to the nutrition advised for asthma. After all, healthy nutrition is healthy nutrition! Never get trapped into a diet that concentrates on one thing. Even if the one thing is medically healthy like carrots or cabbage soup, you need variety for good health.
