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From: tjs@cbdkc1.UUCP ( Tom Stanions)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Psychological Factors Affecting Physical Condition
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Date: Wed, 29-May-85 15:02:41 EDT
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In article <1687@aecom.UUCP> werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) writes:
>From 'Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Third Edition'
>	aka DMS-III  (by the American Psychiatric Association)
>
>	Obesity, Migraine Headache, Tension Headache, Angina Pectoris,
>Painful Menstruation, Sacroiliac Pain, Neurodermatitis, Acne, Rheumatoid
>Arthritis, Asthma, Tachycardia, Arrythmia, Gastric Ulcer, Duodenal Ulcer,
>Cardiospasm, Pylorospasm, Nausea and Vomiting, Regional Enteritis,
>Ulcerative Colitis, and frequency of micturition.
>
>My comments:  I just thought many people on the net would find this 
>interesting.  And just as a thought, I couldn't help but notice that this
>list is almost identical to the list of diseases that respond to nutritional
>therapies.
>

Funny, in the real life instances I have seen of people being cured using
only nutritional (and the obvious mental changes required to use natural
methods) the cases that are most successful are those involving heart and
circulatory problems, with arthritis a close second.  And let us not forget
"The Anatomy of an Illness", in which Norman Cousins shows us how attitude
helped in his disease.

Please stop grabbing at straws to try and defend modern medicine.  I think that
we all have dealt with it at one time or another.  Even though there are many
wonderful things that people have seen come from modern medicine, the price in
human suffering has been great.  One of the people I respect in my field has
taught me that if I must go to a doctor, go to an older one.  He feels that
they will have had a greater chance to see the suffering that is caused in the
process of helping people with medicine.  And therefore they will be more open
to alternative ways.

By the way you have not answered my question, how many hours of nutritional
training are required to get a medical degree?  How many hours have you had?

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