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From: carter@gatech.CSNET (Carter Bullard)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Once again (natural <-> conventional)
Message-ID: <289@gatech.CSNET>
Date: Wed, 12-Jun-85 23:21:13 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 12 23:21:13 1985
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Reply-To: carter@gatech.UUCP (Carter Bullard)
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Summary: 

>
>Maybe I have a low grade allergy to beef.  I don't know the
>mechanism.  I do know that it is *NOT* mental, as I have been
>surprised to find some foods that I had expected to be OK cause
>trouble for me.  (Beef extract in soups is a killer).
>

	If your problem is indeed an allergy to beef, then 
	you have done what modern medicine would have prescribed,
	avoid the beast.  But if you expect a reumatologist ( thats a
	joint doctor ) to approach reumatic disease from a nutritional
	standpoint based on your case, then you are throwing the whole
	thing back to the 1500's.  There is a book called the Materia
	Medica, which is basically the state of the art in medicine 
	for a given year, and the 1823,4,or 5 edition talks about dietary 
	approaches to arthritis( I can't remember the exact year ). 

	Every reumatologist will suggest that you change your diet, but
	most do not hit beef too hard, but they all suggest a decrease
	in dairy products, especially yogurt.

	This stuff is not new.  Thats why it doesn't make a sizable
	impact on modern medicine today.  The reality of the situation
	is very simple, most doctors cannot afford to recommend extreme
	changes in a patients lifestyle in order to treat their problems.
	But for an individual who has the luxury of time and effort to 
	change in order to gain good health, there are a lot of people
	with MD degrees that will take your money just as fast as the
	nutritionalists.

	Its like finding a good mechanic, you just have to look around.
-- 
Carter Bullard
School of Information and Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia 30332
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