| As mentioned in the previous issue medical and | | | | and synchronizing the whole orchestra within you and |
| pharmaceutical research needs to identify a trigger of | | | | to bring it back to harmony where all the instruments |
| a disease. Once discovered they can search for a | | | | (organs and functions) play perfectly together. |
| specific substance that suppresses the symptoms. | | | | Here is what diet treatment really causes: It has the |
| This is clear-cut. | | | | power to completely regenerate your organism, and |
| With dietetic therapy it is very different. If someone | | | | this deep down on cell level! Diet also reactivates and |
| suffers from a certain disease and gets well after | | | | strengthens your self healing power. These are some |
| changing their nutrition nobody can tell what exactly | | | | reasons why diet works so well. |
| caused the cure. Is it Vitamin C or D, is it nutrients in | | | | There is no medicine available to achieve the very |
| general, is it cauliflower or carrots, salad or apples? If | | | | same effect. |
| it's carrots it could be provitamin A or any other | | | | If you change your diet and get well your improved |
| nutrient in it. Nobody knows because science has not | | | | nutrition caused the symptom/s to disappear. That is |
| been interested in investigating this at all. | | | | all we should care for, whether medical science |
| Rosalind Kalb, an associate vice president of the MS | | | | agrees to it or not. And does it matter what exactly |
| society in the US, said in a NY Times article about | | | | causes the cure? Not at all! In opposite, if anybody |
| studying the influence of nutrition on MS: "Thus far, | | | | would find it out they would produce an artificial |
| no researcher has been interested in taking this on. | | | | equivalent but this would be much less effective if at |
| The medications seemed to show more promise." To | | | | all. It is simply impossible to substitute nature. |
| whom? | | | | A very important aspect of dietetic therapy is that, |
| Her colleague Patricia O'Looney, vice president for | | | | in contrast to medicines, it is free of negative side |
| biomedical research at the Multiple Sclerosis Society, | | | | effects. And if we have to do nothing else but to |
| said in an interview: "We'd never suggest changing | | | | change our eating habits to get rid of a disease then |
| one's diet in place of taking a therapy approved by | | | | it should be first choice - for one's own protection. |
| the Food and Drug Administration." Why not? | | | | You have to eat anyway why dietetic treatment is in |
| To make the latter passages easier to understand let | | | | contrast to pharmaceuticals completely free of |
| me put it this way. An orchestra consists of many | | | | charge. |
| musicians with different instruments. In order that the | | | | Will be continued in part 5 - Multiple sclerosis diet - |
| concert sounds good all the instruments have to be | | | | how you can start |
| tuned. If you would tune only one of them and leave | | | | Copyright 2009, by Gunter Ullisperger, M.Sc. |
| the rest untuned it would sound horrible. | | | | [Reprint Rights: You are free to publish this article on |
| It's the same with the human body. | | | | your website, in your newsletter and Ezine as long as |
| ===> Taking medicine means tuning one "instrument". | | | | it remains intact. |
| ===> In contrast changing your diet means tuning | | | | |