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From: carter@gatech.CSNET (Carter Bullard)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Psychological Factors Affecting Physical Condition
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Date: Mon, 3-Jun-85 11:53:05 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  3 11:53:05 1985
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In article <980@cbdkc1.UUCP> tjs@dkc1.UUCP ( Tom Stanions) writes:
>
>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?
>

	How many seconds of nutritional education have you had?
	Do you consider biochemistry a prerequisite to an understanding of
	nutrition?
	Is organic chemistry ( its natural because its organic ) a useful
	introduction to some of the basic principles of nutrition?
	Do you feel that anthropology is a reasonable starting point for an
	understanding of the history of human nutrition?
	Does one have to have educational experience with Ecology in order
	to grasp the concept of food chain positioning and its effect on
	human nutritional decisions?

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Carter Bullard
School of Information and Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia 30332
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