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From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny)
Newsgroups: net.med,net.veg
Subject: Re: Unconventional Cancer Therapy (3 models)
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Date: Mon, 25-Feb-85 10:57:16 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 25 10:57:16 1985
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Organization: Personetics, Inc. - Santa Cruz, Calif.
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	I had an acquaintance that worked at Linus Pauling's
institute in Stanford.   He was totally sold on nutrition 
as a preventive and curative for cancer.   I have another
acquaintance that was co-author of a book, *Getting Well
Again.*   *Getting Well Again* outlines using visualization
to mobilize the body's resources against the disease.  I have
still another friend that was born and educated in mainland
China.  She practices Chinese medicine.  I asked her about
the Chinese model of cancer.  She said it is considered incurable
and it is believed to be caused by depression.  

	Even the AMA is recommending some selenium and fresh
vegetables, i.e. nutrition.   Though  I have not seen anything
directly relating stress and cancer, there is much evidence
that changing ones attitude and life style will greatly decrease
ones chance of heart disease.   People that are beraved are much
more suceptable to disease indicating that perhaps there is 
a subtle relationship between ones attitude and ones immune
system.

	The thing that makes it so difficult to make convincing
arguments one way or the other for any of these approaches (or 
the standard one) is that they do not always work.   Sometimes
they "work."  The problem is, many cancers spontaniously reverse
themselves anyway.  If someone is undergoing a therapy and 
the cancer reverses itself, how is one to know if it was the
therapy or nature?  

	The number one low-fat fresh vegetable nut in the country,
Nate Pritikin, died a few days ago.  He killed himself because
he was in such pain from terminal lukemia.  

	The Chinese got their system of medicine from from 
India and passed it on system to the Japanese.    In all the
experience of all of those systems of medicine there is no
cure for cancer.   
-- 
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