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Fighting Disease Prevention Total Health System pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
Some 30 or 40 years ago, there was general belief that "scientific
medicine" would in short order obliterate just about all disease.
Optimism continued to mount as new antibiotics and tranquilizers were
discovored, new surgical pmcedures devised and space age diagnostic
techniques perfected. For a while it seemed that if we could all live just a
few more years, new discoveries might make us immune to death itself.
Looking back, we can see that the party mood began to sour about
I0 or 15 years ago. More and more people suspected that medicine s
voyage of discovery had degenerated into a mere joyride of doctoring.
Antibiotics and tranquilizers were pmscribed and swallowed--
like Good & Plenty s. X rays were ordered for trivial masons. Surgery
rates climbed like the bull stock market, and medical bills followed.
It was not just an innocent burst of enthusiasm. Real harm was
done. Drugs, we all learned, sometimes had a tail called "side effects."
Needless X rays were thought to promote cancer. Many operations, we
learned, were ineffective or unnecessary or both.
But that s only half of the new perspective. The other half has this
to say: Even when done correctly, even when done with care and
compassion, the medical approach to disease is incomplete. Wonderful,
yes. But not quite the whole answer.
. What it ignores is the dimension of natural healing: strcngthening
the body s immune system through nutritional and other natural
means; physical therapies; stress reduction; diet improvement; and
lifestyle change. To ignore these factors is to forgo, perhaps, a much
more conservative, perhaps even more effective treatment. And even
when extensive medical intervention is required, we now know, the
battle against disease cannot be won by medicine alone. Unless the
body has sufficient vitality to recover from the trauma of intervention,
then reestablish a state of health that will prevent the return of disease,
medicine may be for naught.
Some people reacting against what they see as overdoctering have
rejected the technological approach almost completely. They have
mtumed, in effect, to the 19th century, relying on herbs, untested diets
and unscientific procedures to treat all illness.
But there is no need to reject all of modern medicine because of its
~casional excesses. Nor is total rejection very smart. Today, we are in
the unique position of being able to take advantage of the best
technological medical care and the best natural healing techniques.
By using both approaches, as dictated by good sense, we can
literally enjoy the best of two worlds.
The information and ideas in this book are therefore meant to
complement the guidance you receive from your physician, not to
replace it. Doctors today are becoming more aware of the alternative and
natural approaches to health and may be perfectly willing to discuss
them with a patient who expresses interest.
Many readers will find this volume of The Prevention Total Health
System~ to be of special interest. It may well open a new world of health
possibilities to you. Read it, learn and, together with your doctor, arrive
st a weU-munded plan of health-restoring therapy.
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Fighting Disease Prevention Total Health System pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024