Dr. Mervyn G. Hardinge, MD, Dr. PH, PhD, founding dean of the School of Public Health at Loma Linda University, was incredulous 45 years ago when he observed, “They are starting to call medical care healthcare!” Hardinge had been the chairman of the pharmacology department before getting his Dr. PH from Harvard where he took every course that Harvard offered in nutrition. He saw the best and safest way to effect body chemistry is from the food we choose to eat.

Hardinge understood that medical care is not healthcare—it is the diagnosis and treatment of disease, usually with drugs that often cause adverse reactions. His prior training in pharmacology (PhD from Stanford) taught him that “Drug action always represents artificial interference with the natural functioning of the organism. In the widest sense of the word, every drug is by definition a poison, pharmacology and toxicology are one and the art of medicine is to use these poisons beneficially.” Drill’s Textbook of Pharmacology in Medicine, Chapter 5: Possible Mechanisms of Drug Action.

Though retired now, I was Board-certified in Internal Medicine and taught Health Science under Dr. Hardinge. I see huge drug problems is hidden by the CDC in biz with pharma. They don’t list Adverse Drug Reactions or Medical Error in their Top 10 Causes of Death, but medical literature shows it–see the center column here http://LeadingCauseOfDeathPrescriptionDrugs.com

 Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine said that food should be our medicine. Most disease comes from what we put in our mouths from birth and disease is reversible if we intelligently choose healthy foods. We can learn to do better and enjoy real healthcare–I’m in excellent health at 80.

Nathan Pritikin reported to an American College of Cardiology Convention in Anaheim (1976?) that a low cholesterol, low fat diet got 85% of high blood pressure patients off their drugs. He also got 85% of Type II diabetics off insulin and 100% of 23 patients taking other diabetic drugs no longer needed them. Medical World News, Sept 1, 1981.

But Pritikin found the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association and the American Cancer Society are not looking for cures. That would negatively impact the industry—pharma, hospitals and MDs could not be so greedy (Buffet’s discovery). People could take charge of their own health destiny as Dr. Lester Breslow discovered.

Dr. Breslow, Dean of UCLA’s School of Public Health did a 10-year, federally-funded study that found 7 simple health habits gave an average of an 11-year advantage compared to people with 3 habits or less. And the amazing thing was that his study did not look at the foods they ate—his study began before the Framingham Study showed cholesterol to be a major factor in heart disease.

Colin Campbell, PhD, Professor of Nutrition at Cornell University collaborated with Oxford Univ. to do the China Study. (Google) Coming from a dairy farm, he was hoping to show that dairy protein would be good, but to the contrary, he discovered that casein favored cancer. He summarizes what he believes is the best diet as “whole foods, plant-based.”

That’s the focus of a great documentary by Mike Anderson showing how most disease is reversible with Cleveland Clinic Cardiologist, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn. One can see an 8-minute introduction at https://youtu.be/uDc7oZ-EnX0 The 88-minute DVD is on Amazon for $9.73. With shipping and tax, it’s $15.18.

But you can get my new book, “From Lockdown to Knockdown, the Fall of America…” showing how we are failing in most major areas and what to do for $4.95 at https://amzn.to/2RrhFoH 

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