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Subject: Re: Re: Unconventional Cancer Therapy
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Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 10:22:55 EST
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			YES! MACROBIOTICS
			__________________


>So, you "saw a story on TV" and you read materials by those who promote
>this "therapy."  Do you not know, by now, that to be sure a new therapy
>works is for people who do not care what the result is to test it?  If
>macrobiotics work, do you really believe that the major medical
>centers would not have tested it by now?  Are you going to insult the
>readers of these groups by insisting that a "conspiracy" exists among
>medical people to allow one in 4 of us to get cancer?
>
>Great! Macrobiotics sounds like a very good way to prevent the
>>occurrence of much disease; perhaps even cancer.  But why on earth would
>you think that such a diet has medicinal value?  When are pepeople like
>you going to stop raising needlessly the hopes of ill people?
>
>It has already been observed in this group that increased heart disease
>and cancer are partly attributable to the fact that folks no longer die
>in large numbers under the age of 40 due to TB, pneumonia, and diabetes.
>
>Finally, since you insist on stories rather than science, the people of
>my acquaintance who use this diet have just as many colds, periods of
>fatigue, and all the rest as the rest of us.
>
>Wake up, man!  If it were that simple, we'd all live forever!
/* ---------- */

	You are right! It is time to 'Wake Up'. 'cause it is that
	simple. It is potent, and not being able to justify and 
	rationalize from the 'American Medical Assoc' point of view
	does not in anyway disprove its efficacy. It works and
	can potentially cure most of the maladies of the human body.

	Not a TV commercial or any propaganda brought me to it;
	instead it was  desparation and plain disgust with
	'Modern Medicine'. My doctors had given me all the scares
	and the bills, and my own condition was hopeless enough
	when I ran into a friend who suggested Macrobiotics.
	Instead of looking at impending death  in my immediate
	future, I recovered in less than 2 months. When I started
	I hardly knew anything about macrobiotics but was
	just fortunate to have some experts in my backyard, they
	taught me the basic principles - the YIN and the YANG
	and that is all I need to know.
	
	I don't need to know the 
	biochemical constitution of the food I eat, broken
	down into amino acids or sodium, calcium ....
	Not even the protein hype, or calories etc. either.
	Probably this reductionistic analysis is relevant in mainitaining
	the image of "AMA" and also the hopes of some biochemical
	fanatics alive. I grew up with doctors in my family
	and was always made aware of what was being consumed
	from the biochemical point of view, and I think it is
	an interesting discipline, at least I know what bacteria
	or virus afflicts me when I have flu; I can even take
	a look at the micrograph and appreciate the beauty of the
	virus..


	I have one point in favour of Macrobiotics, and it is that
	IT WORKS! And of common cold and flu etc. elementary my 
	dear Watson - too much YIN, under normal circumstances
	does not take more than 24 hours to subside. Numerous
	people have tried such cure on my insistence, and have been
	cured too, even yesterday, today too. Give it a shot yourself,
	before espousing any more antagonistic arguments
	without first-hand evidence. 

	Macrobiotics is not just another diet. It is a way of life
	operated by balancing the YIN and YANG in about everything.
	If it is used for some patchwork cure, or as  a fad, it will
	lose its potency. There are some amazing underlying principles
	behind our existence and our body, when understood
	propely, everything works- - even without NEW IMPROVED
	EXTRA STRENGTH TYLENOL.

	It is a  question of which paradigm or representation scheme
	works, and here YIN and YANG are effective; protein,calories,
	amino acids exist too, and probably are effective in another
	domain. Thus I see no reason for people to wait 10 years
	until the AMA releases its own brand of Macrobiotics
	with some biochemical interpretation, that may not be
	relevant. My oncologist friend was antagonistic towards
	Macrobiotics too, just a simple fear of unknown, then
	he and his family fell sick and some very simple advice
	cured him and the whole family in 24 hours, now he is
	learning about Macrobiotics, and already one of his 
	patients has gone on the diet.

	I personally owe my current well-being to Macrobiotics
	and am more enrgetic and mentally resolved than ever before
	in my life. 

	To appreciate the beauty of a flower, I don't need to 
	squish it into a slide and then put it under Auger
	Electron Spectroscope to find its chemical constitution
	so that I can see its beauty. It is easier than that,
	you just look at it.

	Similarly with food, you just eat it, it will tell you
	all you wanted to know about it.

	By the way, its all in the attitude.............



	- Chandra S. Shastri
	 'The Smart Lunatic'

	A T & T Bell Laboratories
	(614)-860-4654

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