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From: kinne@asgb.UUCP (Robert W Kinne)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Psychological Factors Affecting Physical Condition
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Date: Fri, 14-Jun-85 10:36:35 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 14 10:36:35 1985
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> In article <218@gatech.CSNET> carter@gatech.UUCP (Carter Bullard) writes:
> >	How many seconds of nutritional education have you had?
> 
> suggest and explain myself.  However I have attended several lectures given by
> both doctors and non-doctors on the subjects of nutrition, health, iridology,
> reflexology and other forms of non-drug,non-medical help.  I have had classroom
> training in iridology and have been taught and practiced foot reflexology by
> >	Do you consider biochemistry a prerequisite to an understanding of
> >	nutrition?
> 
> No.  Remember that we are dealing in a field where we can not hope to
> understand all the variables.  I assume by this question that you feel that an
> understanding of the chemical nature of what we eat is important.  Most of what
> we now know about herbs and different foods is based on knowledge that was
> gained by human experience long before the word biochemistry was invented.
> 
> >	Is organic chemistry ( its natural because its organic ) a useful
> >	introduction to some of the basic principles of nutrition?
> 
> Organic is a trick word.  Using the definition "formed from living things" I
> disagree that if you dissassemble a living plant and make a drug it is still
> organic.  If you heat an organic food above ~120 degrees you destroy enzymes,
> above ~200 you dystroy protien, can it still be called organic?  Again, we
> shouldn't try to understand what we cannot.  If we can't have all the
> information we must remember that a little knowledge is dangerous.  God/nature
> has all the information, we should take their advice in the total packages that

Please move drivel of this type to net.religion, it has absolutely
nothing to do with medicine or science.