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This approach has not been effective. Almost every medical treatment offered for the chronic disease sufferer today attempts only to control symptoms. There are no ―cures.‖ The current medical treatments not only have risks, but also represent a Band-Aid type of approach. They can offer relief from symptoms, but they cannot cure because they do not address the cause of the disease. Under ―modern‖ medicine, the incidence of most chronic diseases has increased and the vast majority of people are still dying from what are preventable, diet-and lifestyle-induced illnesses.
    Obviously, traditional medical treatments can be lifesaving in an emergency situation and on some other occasions can be appropriate and extremely beneficial. We certainly have today the best emergency medical care ever available. But, overall, modern medicine has continued to fail. People are still suffering needlessly and dying prematurely. This is because treatments don't eliminate the primary cause: a rich diet that stresses the system and overloads the body with excesses and toxins.
    Imagine if every day I smashed my hand with a hammer. Could I expect a pain medication or anti-inflammatory drug to heal the wound? Obviously, I 24
    would not recover unless I stopped the daily pounding. Every day our nation's people are pounding themselves with a rich diet, ill-adapted to the needs of our species. This inevitably results in the eventual breakdown of our internal systems and the development of chronic disease.
    Fasting, as opposed to the usual medical treatments, helps to remove the cause of the disease. For example, with atherosclerosis (the buildup of plaque in the arteries), fasting allows the body to work to actually remove the plaque from within the blood vessels. In diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, fasting clears out the waste deposits that are stimulating the immune system and inflaming the joints. This allows the body to heal itself.
    In addition to the consistently positive results of fasting on disease, fasting enables the disease sufferer to drop weight rapidly to a safer level. Excess weight in those suffering from diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, or angina can contribute to their premature death from a heart attack or stroke. While diets of every description flood the media, nothing will remove these risk factors more effectively, more quickly, or more predictably than fasting.
    A natural foods dietary approach, utilizing superior nutrition, combined with therapeutic fasting, when appropriate, is the only way our society will be able to free itself from the hordes of ill people still chronically suffering and taking multiple drugs as the only option to lessen their symptoms.
    The practice and methods described here offer a rational approach that is not only effective but also consistent with the Hippocratic admonition to ―do no harm.‖ The results described are consistent with natural laws and logic that would assume that health will result from healthful living and from removal of the causes of disease. Likewise, abuses done to our bodies, whether recognized or not, can result in ill health. Rather than merely reduce the signs of disease, such as lowering blood pressure with medication, this approach enables the faster to remove the disease itself and significantly extend longevity.
    Doctors leave medical school with the hope and intent of gaining self-satisfaction through helping others in need. Doctors and patients both, however, become resigned and frustrated due to the inherent weaknesses in today's approach that calls for powerful diagnostic tests, and then leaves the patient with little option but to take potentially harmful drugs to attempt to control the signs and symptoms of disease. Rather than hoping for the discovery of some wonder drug, we are discovering the true wonder of the healing properties inherent in the human body that can be unleashed by removing impediments to normal function.
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