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From: cjh@petsd.UUCP (Chris Henrich)
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Subject: Re: AIDS IS PREVENTABLE
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Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 13:06:48 EDT
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Summary: Questions raised by this article

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	Bill Stoll's article on holistic medicine and AIDS
raises some questions in the mind of a layman.  I will excerpt
his article.

>The members of the American Holistic Medical Association, the
>International Academy of Preventive Medicine, as well as many other
>practitioners of a Holistic approach to medical care have known, for
>[y]ears, the basic mechanism of AIDS.

Was it published? References, please?
BTW, what is the relation between the International Academy of
Preventive Medicine and main-stream M.D.-type medicine? (A
question for both Mr. (Dr?) Stoll and mainstream M.D.'s.

>In the beginning a few
>conventional researchers dared to suggest the truth but no one really
>liked the idea because ... it didn't fit the conventional
>paradigm of causation of disease. [The ellipsis covers a few
sentences.]

The idea, that AIDS requires a breakdown of the immune system
after prolonged stress, reminds me of the work of Hans Selye.
I had the impression he was respected by main-stream medicine.
If this is the case, is it consistent with supposing that
main-stream medicine pooh-poohed the Holists' view of AIDS?

>A West German study, done in 1976, showed that the average person, in
>western industrialized society, was exposed to >1000 times as many
>stresses/person/day as people were 100 years ago, and that the rate
>was increasing faster every year.  90% 0f those stresses were not
>psychological, or social, but, were physical, chemical, nutritional,
>electromagnetic smog, etc.; ENVIRONMENTAL stresses that didn't even
>exist 100 years ago.

References, please?  AND critical treatment of these issues:
(a) What is your universal quantitative measurement of the
severity of a "stress", and how is this measurement justified?

(b) How did the West Germans measure the stresses that people
were subjected to 100 years ago, and how were these stresses
quantitatively compared to those of today?

Consider the environmental stresses that people faced 100
years ago, in comparison with those of today.  Driving is
stressful; but being limited to the speed of a horse and buggy
( ~ 4 miles per hour) must have been frustrating and therefore
stressful as well.  Which is better?  Well, which have you chosen
for yourself?

Then there were the nutritional stresses... no fresh green
veggies in winter, no refrigeration in summer, food preserved
by smoking or salting it... (too much salt in the diet, not to
mention carcinogens galore)... Somewhere I read once that in
the early 1800's, English bakers frequently put alum in their
bread to whiten it. (Cross reference discussion of aluminum
and Alzheimer's Disease.) A consequence was kidney/bladder
stones; Eton's infirmary had a ward for boys with bladder
stones.

This is getting far afield of AIDS; but it makes me feel
uncertain that, where holistic medicine is valid, it is all
that far from main-line M.D. medicine.  

Regards,
Chris

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