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"We need to know the difference between treating symptoms and working to restore health by addressing the causes of disease. When we closely examine our behavior and reactions to being sick, we realize that we give very little thought to how we can stay healthy. For the most part, we take our health for granted until it is almost gone. Unfortunately, we have also come to expect disease as a natural part of growing older. But we do not understand why young people become seriously ill. Somehow that doesn't seem right." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"So while a dieter on a high-protein diet is increasing his intake of saturated fat which has been linked to a range of health problems, he is also reducing his intake of high-quality whole foods like healthy carbohydrates and fruits and vegetables which are rich in the very nutrients that have been associated with reducing risks to the most common chronic causes of disease and death. To step back for a moment, there's no question that evidence points to some association between high-protein foods and weight loss." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"Although the name "dropsy" didn't disappear from medical textbooks overnight, eventually laboratory tests were developed to pinpoint the actual causes of disease in different organs. Blood tests identified kidney and liver disease, and X-rays heart disease. Patients with sick hearts that could not pump adequately often had swelling of the legs and complained of shortness of breath when they walked. What had once been labeled "dropsy" could now be attributed to congestive heart failure or some other specific disease. So dropsy became a quaint term from yesteryear." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) "It's frustrating, for a doctor as well as for a patient, when the underlying causes of disease remain a mystery. But at least my patient can take heart that this battery of tests has ruled out a large number of illnesses, some relatively minor and some potentially very serious. Unfortunately, many doctors are uncomfortable with medical complaints that can't be backed up by abnormal test results. When out of their comfort zone they may leap to the conclusion that there is nothing wrong." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"It does not treat the basic causes of disease, the reasons why health begins to degenerate in the first place. The "chasing the disease" approach simply doesn't work in the long run because it can't! If you don't address the cause of a problem, it will just surface again later. It may arise in a different form, or it may come back in the same form but be much more serious. When natural laws of caring for the body are ignored, aging and deterioration take place in a manner that, sooner or later, results in serious loss of quality of life." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "True healthcare works to correct the causes of disease. And, although the present allopathic system is often referred to as "traditional medicine," it is not. True traditional medicine is healthcare that uses natural methods, foods, and herbs, and has been practiced since the beginning of civilization. Today's medical system, which is barely a century old, attempts to treat disease with chemicals, surgery, and radiation technologies. It is not health care. It is disease care. What are the beliefs underlying the conventional doctor-patient relationship?" - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"We need to treat people, not body parts; we want to treat the causes of disease, not symptoms. I was trained according to the dogma of separate medical specialties—for heart problems you see the cardiologist, for stomach problems you see the gastroenterologist, for joint pain you see the rheumatologist, for skin problems, the dermatologist.You just don't ask the skin doctor about your joint pain. If you do ask, he or she will cut you off and tell you to see the joint doctor. The road map I was given in medical school to navigate through the territory of illness was the wrong map." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"In the conventional biological paradigm, the causes of disease are almost always limited to biological and genetic processes and environmental factors such as toxins and infectious agents. In terms of public health, with the exception of the negative health effects of ultraviolet radiation from the sun and radon gas from the earth, there is little scientific agreement about the health effects of energy fields, natural or man-made. Debate rages about the effects of the loss of the ozone layer and the output from high-power electrical transmission lines on health." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"In its June 2006 report, titled "Preventing Disease Through Healthy Environments," the WHO focused on the environmental causes of disease and how numerous diseases are influenced by environmental factors." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"If as a society we paid more attention to the environmental causes of disease, we could do a better job of protecting our children. Environmental Triggers Researchers have linked environmental exposures to a jaw-dropping number of health problems: learning disabilities, hyperactivity, headaches, asthma, allergies, obesity, diabetes, autism, eye damage, pediatric cancer, and even rheumatoid arthritis." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Perera why we don't spend more money on researching environmental causes of disease instead, she said that it was because "measuring genes is precise, and you can do it beautifully. Measuring the environment isn't so pretty, so it doesn't always have that appeal. Genes are sexy and high technology, but you have to bring in the environment, too. You have to be studying both. When you are talking about prevention, it's the environmental factors you can change; the genes you can't change." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"What are the major causes of disease, and how can we eliminate them? What simple and effective practices can I incorporate into my daily routine that will dramatically improve my health?" - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Like racehorses too tightly reined in, most doctors want to practice "real medicine": diagnosing complex illnesses by ordering tests to confirm or rule out hypotheses and implementing the latest therapies, which are aimed ever more precisely at specific biological causes of disease. Through our years of intense training we learn that there is not, nor could there be, a more rational way to practice medicine. The unspoken underlying narrative of biomedicine shared by most doctors today can be summed up by four principles: 1." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"But we never, ever use the word cure except in the strictest sense that 'all cure is body initiated, body conducted and body maintained when the conditions for health are provided and the causes of disease are removed'. And the word medicine is never used unless the ten energy enhancers could metaphorically be considered the only "medicine" man, woman and child should ever take. A final term must be addressed: detoxification and its variants detox, detoxify and detoxer. Dr." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "The reason is simple: if people knew the truth about the causes of disease and how to retrace their symptoms back into health, they would refuse to pay hundreds of dollars a month for health insurance. People might pay a bit for accident insurance, but the chances of a catastrophic accident are miniscule compared to the chances of developing a disease condition (nearly a 100% chance). Insurance rates and insurance company profits, which are typically a percentage of insurance rates, would thus logically have to be much lower." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "This book nevertheless asserts that on the whole, those with their medical mentality in no way offer the superlative health care program whereby we can learn to prevent disease in its earliest stages of enervation and toxemia and enhance health by removing the remote causes of disease and providing the conditions for health. Therefore, we speak here in deference to the good doctors and their personnel and commend them for their good works. We only wish there were more of them!" - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Now that we have looked at the general causes of disease, let's examine the specifics. What could we be doing wrong that is causing us to develop diseases, or at least become less healthy than we could and should be? In the next chapter we'll read about two studies that gave us answers many years ago. We'll also examine what has changed in disease statistics, food production, food consumption, and the environment since 1900. 5 | HEALTH AND DISEASE One-quarter of what you eat keeps you alive. The other three-quarters keeps your doctor alive." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Although drugs tailored to a particular person's genetic make-up are not yet around the corner, as recent hype has suggested, our knowledge of the underlying causes of disease has increased enormously and continues to grow, thanks to the foundations that have been laid in this worldwide undertaking over the past two decades.'15 Biobanks are necessarily large and, as such, draw the public into the infrastructure of medicine in a way that has not been possible before." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"Symptoms of Disease are Like Sand in the Hand Symptoms of disease are highly changeable, if not unpredictable. The causes of disease remain obscure to most medical practitioners and their patients. A stomach catarrh, or inflammation of the mucous membrane, for example, may initially show up as an irritation and then become an ulcer. Next it may be perceived as a hardening of tissue and, eventually, be diagnosed as cancer. The course and intensification of pathological symptoms (signs of disease) may vary from person to person, and relatively few people develop the cancer stage." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) "All of these reduce T-cell activation by thymus hormones and leave the body without sufficient defenses against the spreading of cancer cells and other causes of disease. The thymus gland shrinks when it is exposed to stress. It is well known that following a serious injury, surgery or sudden illness, millions of white blood cells are destroyed, and the thymus gland shrivels to as little as half of its normal size. Looking at video footage of Adolf Hitler, a child abuser or a wanted terrorist may be enough to stress your thymus gland significantly." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) "One of the primary causes of disease is chronic cellular dehydration, a condition which leaves the body's cells in a perpetual state of weakness and defense. Ionized water is up to six times more hydrating than conventional water. In other words, by drinking less or the same amount of water but in ionized form, you will actually hydrate your cells much more effectively. (The hot ionized water described earlier is used to remove toxins from the tissues and therefore rarely hydrates cells directly. However, once the toxins are removed, the cells become more efficiently hydrated than before)." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"And the reason, once again, is that veterinarians have to understand the true causes of disease and the relationships between nutrition and health. They have to attempt to educate pet owners about how to keep their pets healthy. And the number one way to do that is to give their pets outstanding nutrition so that they don't experience disease in the first place. Nutrition and farm animals Moving on from household pets and dogs, let's look at some other mammals where the relationship between nutrition and health is rather apparent. I'm talking about farm animals." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Justice Department for fabricating test results indicating that Aspartame was safe (and later for racketeering charges) but legal mat- Epidemiological: The branch of science concerned with public health and the causes of disease. ters were held up and delayed by unscrupulous attorneys (whom later took extremely lucrative positions within the Aspartame industry) until the statute of limitations expired. An initial investigation titled "The Bressler Report" details numerous discrepancies between reported study data and the actual, verifiable data describing the toxicity of Aspartame." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.)

"To investigate these comprehensive causes of disease, it was therefore necessary to record as many dietary and other lifestyle factors as possible, then formulate hypotheses and interpret data that represent comprehensiveness. Perhaps the most unique characteristic that set this study apart concerned the nutritional characteristics of the diets consumed in rural China. Virtually every other human study on diet and health, of whatever design, has involved subjects who were consuming a rich Western diet." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"I have spent years tracing the root causes of disease. Although everyone talks about toxic overload, no one is focusing on the real problem— where that overload takes place. What Happens When You Have a Toxic Intestine, Colon, or Liver? I mention the liver at this point because, after years of toxic buildup, the liver takes quite a beating and must be cleansed regularly just like your skin, house, or car. However, the intestinal tract is the first line of defense in the body." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.)

"As is so often the case, the purely symptom-oriented medical theories fall short in explaining the causes of disease. In fact, they are likely to make you ill. Beware of any advice given to you by any doctor, company, or organization who wants to protect you against a supposed threat while at the same time trying to sell you something else, such as sunscreen lotions. Pittas—Watch Out! Australians who are not Aboriginals usually have fair and often freckled skin, reddish-blond hair, and light-colored eyes." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Compared to the investment in studies seeking genetic causes of disease, the most significant returns were generated on the investment in studies of infectious disease. Polio, measles, hepatitis, liver cancer, ulcers, and cervical cancer were all controlled or shown to be controllable during the last half of the twentieth century through the control of infectious agents.12 It is easier for non-experts to track the thinking in medicine than to comment on it. As was seen with ulcers, infectious causation was recognized only after a compelling body of evidence had been amassed." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.) "It is forcing researchers to rethink some cherished ideas about medicine, from what makes an ideal drug and the design of clinical trials to the underlying causes of disease.20 CAM embraces many different practices but they all tend to share the same broad holistic perspective. In essence, this says that a healthy body is a system in hatmony with itself and with its surroundings. Moreover, diseases can be created by a fault that is disttibuted over the whole body rather than in one specific part." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"In this chapter, we lay out both paradigms: the conventional medical model and the best alternative model, best summarized as health by healthful living. The Medical Model's Four Schools of Thought Various basic models within the medical world explain how disease in the human body gets there and how it should be handled. The most practiced within the medical model rely upon four schools of thought: (1) the mystery school, (2) the wear and tear school, (3) the genetic/congenital school and (4) the germ theory." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"They sure don't want people thinking for themselves about the causes of disease! By creatinga whole newvocabulary for medical conditions, they can speak their own secret language and make sure that people who aren't schooled in medicine don't understand what they're saying." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

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