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--- Vegigran <vegigran wrote:

 

> Dr. Morter is just another one of the many, many

> people who have written books to share their

> knowledge with those who want to read it.

 

Tev: Knowledge or imaginative speculation? I remain

skeptical. Sounds like another marketing package to

me.

 

> But we

> will all come to our own conclusions as we

> self-educate ourselves and really don't have to get

> angry over anything anyone wants to write.

 

TEV: This sort of apologetic is predictable. Anger is

an appropriate response for me when confronting

snake-oil salesmen or women and other charlatans.

(Throw the money-changers out of my temple!)

 

>I am

> just thankful that people are taking the time to

> write what they have come to find out, whether I

> agree with them or not.

 

TEV: I think it is important too, that people report

their investigations. However, it appears to me that

such reports are being coined in the language of fact.

All " ideas " or " introspections " are not facts.

 

Considering we are dealing with nutritional science,

and such information may influence people and their

lives, shouldn't there be accountability?

 

>Dr. Morter has devoted over

> twenty-five years to helping people get well and he

> shares in his book what has seemed to work and his

> findings.

 

TEV: I applaud his devotion, good intentions, and his

good-work ethic. What " seemed to work " and the ideas

of " expansion and contraction " that he has packaged

them into, seems dubious to me.

 

Nutritional science is already complex. Do Dr.

Morter's " findings " simplify Nutri-sci or make it more

complex and confused?

 

> His information is compiled from clinical experience

> and literary research.

 

TEV: Clinical experience? Yeah, so...what is that?

That tells me nothing. There are lots of SAD doctors

and dentists with clinical experience.

 

As to literary research, so what. I can do that

myself. I don't need to buy another book. Too many

opinions about nutritional science that aren't based

on biochemical facts.

 

>He gives some simple tests

> one can do to see just how healthy their bodies

> really are. No mumbo-jumbo, just that the body has

> an innate ability to keep itself in tune via

> " proper " nutrition.

>

> Vegigran

 

TEV: TEV's test: Does the food serve to keep my body

healthy and to keep me feeling good? If it does great.

If not, out it goes. I don't need to confuse my body

with " expansions and contractions " .

 

Since my " body has an innate ability to keep itself in

tune via 'proper' nutrition " already, why do I need

the ambiguous information about " expansion and

contraction " ?

 

 

nu·tri·tion (n-trshn, ny-) KEY

 

NOUN:

 

The process of nourishing or being nourished,

especially the process by which a living organism

assimilates food and uses it for growth and for

replacement of tissues.

 

The science or study that deals with food and

nourishment, especially in humans.

A source of nourishment; food.

 

ETYMOLOGY:

Middle English nutricion, from Old French nutrition,

from Late Latin nutritio , nutrition-, from Latin

nutritus, past participle of nutrire, to suckle; see

(s)nau- in Indo-European roots

 

 

 

=====

[...there'll be love and laughter,

and peace ever after,

just you wait and see...

---Vera Lynn]

 

 

 

 

 

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