| I am going to start this article by quoting from an | | | | whatever is wrong with you MRSA could kill you |
| eminent physician - Oliver Wendell Holmes MD. "If we | | | | anyway! |
| doctors threw all our medicines into the sea, it would | | | | Lack of knowledge of alternative medicines is a great |
| be that much better for our patients and that much | | | | problem, but with the advent of the power of the |
| worse for the fishes." | | | | internet that should no longer be an excuse. |
| How much of the industrialised world's national | | | | The first step must be with each of us, where we all |
| incomes are spent on more and more fancy and | | | | want to be healthy. We then look at our lifestyle, |
| highly expensive medical 'advances' for everything, | | | | and try to break any bad habits we may have had - |
| especially diseases like cancer and heart diseases? | | | | like alcohol, smoking, or some other illegal substance. I |
| Why is it that we tend to shun any solution that is | | | | like to drink, but I do in moderation, I have never |
| free, or not very expensive, in favour of the latest, | | | | been a true smoker, apart from some wonderful |
| most expensive drug just coming on the market? | | | | holidays in Cuba where a non-inhaled Cohiba on a sun |
| In the UK alone, spending on the National Heath | | | | soaked sandy beach was a joy. I have never tried |
| Service will surpass 7.9% of the whole Gross | | | | any illegal substances, never having found the need - |
| Domestic Production, or well over £50 | | | | I find life is quite exhilarating as it is. |
| BILLION! | | | | I have a natural curiosity so I look up healthy |
| But still many people are excluded from treatment, | | | | remedies on the Internet - that is totally free to all |
| either in the form of physical operations, or drugs, | | | | of us. I read about Green Tea for instance, and its |
| and there is still not enough money available, so this | | | | healing properties, so I now drink that with no milk, |
| amount will just inexcusably rise and rise and rise... | | | | instead of gallons of coffee. I know that when you |
| Now, this would be justifiable if the health of the | | | | eat a meal as you digest it, your body produces |
| nation was rapidly improving but it isn't. It's getting | | | | masses of harmful free radicals, that can and do |
| worse. | | | | damage the body cells, and can and do form cancers. |
| The numbers of people suffering from long term, or | | | | I found out that by eating grapes with your meal |
| killer diseases is increasing, not decreasing - so what's | | | | actually cuts down much of these free radicals from |
| going wrong? | | | | being generated. |
| The problem probably lies in a lack of awareness of | | | | For thousands of years, people have been |
| how our very on life style, and the food that we | | | | experimenting with natural products, and |
| consume, affects our well-being, but we don't change | | | | unfortunately there are so many, that unless |
| our habits. No - we would rather just do what we | | | | somebody or an organisation pulls them into some |
| feel like, and then seek a physician when we don't | | | | kind of catalogue, we are all going to miss out on a |
| feel well. | | | | longer healthier life, free from some nasty killer |
| This is probably due to ignorance in what is out there | | | | disease. |
| in the world that can help you and any healing | | | | If governments were to concentrate on natural |
| process in a natural way, which does not rely on | | | | health remedies, so we all live longer, perhaps they |
| some expensive cocktail of drugs to repair. | | | | could put some of the money they save towards |
| Natural health remedies - or alternative medicines - | | | | providing us with better pensions in our longer, |
| are scoffed at as being too 'old fashioned' and | | | | healthier lives. |
| unreliable. Well, can you say modern day drugs are | | | | Food for thought... |
| reliable? What about MRSA? Go into hospital and | | | | |