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| tors have told them that inflammatory illnesses cannot be cured, prevented, reversed or slowed. Most American physicians agree with Robert Phillips, Ph.D., a psychologist whose book, Coping with Osteoarthritis, warns, "Is there any particular diet that is most appropriate for osteoarthritis? The answer is a resounding no!" |
| For decades the Arthritis Foundation denied the link between diet and arthritis, censoring anyone who suggested otherwise. While it is now conducting dietary research, its position on special diets and other "unapproved" therapies is still negative. The Arthritis Foundation upholds a philosophy of medicine that has prevailed in the United States for most of the 20th century. Doctors know best, patients should be protected from unapproved therapies, the only treatments a patient can choose from are those that have been officially endorsed and patients should be discouraged or prevented from experimenting on their own. |
| But if orthodox therapies worked, would people of all socioeconomic and educational backgrounds invest a billion dollars every year in alternatives? Orthodox medicine's failure to cure chronic illnesses like arthritis results from its failure to address the cause of disease. Western medicine is called "allopathic" because it treats symptoms with therapies that oppose those symptoms. It uses prescription drugs and surgical hip replacements to suppress or alleviate pain and inflammation, not to cure or reverse or prevent the disease itself. |
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