The March/April issue of The AARP Magazine featured an article
titled The Best Medicine: “Once upon a time mainstream doctors looked
askance at alternative treatments, especially when it came to chronic
diseases. Now, the medical establishment is embracing a new way to
heal.”
Sounds good, right? Well, that’s what I thought, too; until I
realized that the “integrative care” this article promotes is mostly
centered on yoga, healing touch, meditation, stress-reduction, herbal
therapy – “feel good” remedies. As usual with most popular information
today, the “v” word (vegetarian or vegan) is avoided. Instead, (as I’ve
come to expect) such cowardly cop-outs as “a healthier diet” and “eating
right” are recommended.
And as though that isn’t bad enough, gruesome research on mice is
cited to try to prove the negative effect of stress! Anyone who isn’t a
sociopath (lacking empathy) would think: There’s something very wrong
here! How can you try to relieve your own stress while being aware of
the cancers and stress inflicted on innocent animals in what really
amounts to unnecessary sadism masquerading as “science”?!
As far as we’re concerned, we’ll just stick with what the father of
medical science, Hippocrates, advised 400 years before the birth of
Christ: “Let food be your medicine.”
For good information about health, visit:
http://www.all-creatures.org/health.html
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http://www.all-creatures.org/recipes.html
