[Gettingwell]Frank~~ starting point of group.

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I think putting together a good solid reading list is a wonderful idea and if

you have one I would like it.

 

sharon

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Frank

gettingwell

Tuesday, December 31, 2002 2:54 PM

starting point of group.

 

 

 

Dear Group,

 

I would like to cover a few items that probably will not be popular with some

people.

 

The reason that this group was started was to give an area to discuss the use

of foods, vitamins, herbs and some others to be used in healing and to trade

that information with each other,

 

There were quite a few groups on that said they were promoting natural

healing but their version was usually the same. They were promoting things like

liver and gallbladder cleanses, machines that cured all disease, etc. ( I don't

knock that element in the group, but this is not the forum for it either).

 

This I found was usually at odds with most serious recognized alternate

healing methods like orthomolecular and naturopathic methods. The term

naturopathy or naturopath as used on the web, is used by all kinds of people,

even though it is a very specific method, whose doctors study at colleges for an

about equal amount of time as M.D.s, but in common usage on the web it can mean

just about anything or anybody.

 

Most sources on the web seem a little bit snake oilish to me. So, I started

this group to get away from that and try and have a place where the more

orthomolecular or naturopathic viewpoint could be discussed.

 

Later, I did find a few groups based on what I considered solid nutritional

and herbal foundations. Joann's was one and a few others. I eventually joined

them also. And eventually I invited some of the groups of a similiar nature to

post here also.

 

Some of the observations that I have come to in trying to sift the wheat from

the chaff are.

 

If someone is trying to sell you information about health and nutrition, they

probably are not the best source for information, as most of anything they could

quote was taken from someone higher in the pecking order and the information

from that source was usually free and available in a serious publication.

 

The same held true for nutritional supplements. If someone was trying to sell

me expensive supplements based on the superiority and cliams that theirs only

worked and somesuch, I usually found on further research that their claims were

more sales slant than truth.

 

Good health information and good nutrition do not have to cost a lot. If

someone is trying to tell you otherwise, then they are usually being influenced

by a sales slant somewhere. I am not against business. I am for business. I am

against misrepresentation for profit, no matter whether the business is large or

small.

 

Good nutrition is more a matter of education than what brand of vitamins to

buy.

 

Good health information is available on the net, but you have to search for

it, seperate the wheat from the chaff, and be able to discern the difference.

Self education is again the key.

 

Not everything good to know, in this area, is available in it's entirety on

the web. There are some very good books written on the use of nutrients and

herbs to heal. Most are not the popular sellers promoted by the medias. Nor do

they go out of fashion with the information if they are based on solid research.

 

If someone wanted to invest in health dollars (or euros, yen, pesos. etc.), I

would recommend some used books available for relatively few dolars from some of

the online auctions and book exchanges.

 

The old Adelle Davis paperbacks are available for about 75 cents plus postage.

I have bought a lot of hardback classic books on health and nutrition for 2 to 5

bucks apiece.

 

Now, that I consider a great bargain, considering the depth and completeness

of some of these books in contrast to what someone is trying to sell me on the

web. And written by people who really know what they are talking about.

 

I have found a lot of them cheap, If anyone would like to know some examples,

i will send them to you.

 

I guess my point is that information is cheap if you look for it and steer

clear of most of the advertised ones thrust upon you.

 

Books do not have to be expensive (used), nutritious food does not have to be

expensive, good supplements I'm still working on, but I don't buy the designer

ones though.

 

So, if anyone wants to promote the more popular versions of alternative

methods like I mentioned above ( and are all over the web), please go to one of

the many groups that promote that stuff. I came here to get away from that.

 

But if you are interested in the non commercial, serious approach proposed by

the othomolecular, naturopaths amd serious herbalists, then please stay and help

us all learn.

 

respectfully,

 

Frank

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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