Francis - The great American health hoax: the surprising truth about how modern medicine keeps you sick: how to choose a healthier, happier, and disease-free life

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Disclaimer: The advice contained in this book is not intended as a substitute for the advice/medical care of the readers physician. The reader should generally consult with a physician in matters relating to his or her health. Any eating or exercise regimen should be undertaken after consulting with the readers physician.

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2014 Raymond Francis

ISBN-13: 978-07573-1849-8 (Paperback)
ISBN-10: 07573-1849-5 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-07573-1850-4 (ePub)
ISBN-10: 07573-1850-9 (ePub)

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

ONE: I Almost Died

TWO: Why It Isnt Working

THREE: Making Health Simple

FOUR: Your Maintenance List

FIVE: Toxic Foods to Avoid

SIX: Choosing a Better Diet

SEVEN: Toxins Cause Disease

EIGHT: Using Your Mind to Heal

NINE: Physical Factors Affecting Your Health

TEN: Its Not in Your Genes

ELEVEN: Death by Medicine

TWELVE: The Bottom Line

APPENDIX A:
About Beyond Health International

APPENDIX B:
Foods with Acidic Effect on Body Chemistry

APPENDIX B-2:
Foods with Alkaline Effect on Body Chemistry

Bibliography

M any people helped in bringing this book to completion, and I would like to express to them my abundant and never-ending gratitude. First, I am grateful to the wonderful staff at my publisher, Health Communications Inc., and particularly to my editor, Allison Janse, for her many years of support, encouragement, and understanding.

I am also grateful to the unflagging support and excellent editing skills of Norman Hawker and Pamela Strong. Their dedication and willingness to work long hours on short notice helped to make this work a better, more readable, more useful book.

A huge debt also goes to my friends Richardine OBrien, Mollie Meyers, Richard Higgins, and Joan Carole, who each contributed in their own way. I also want to thank Jeanelle Topping for her superior skills in organizing the bibliography.

Last, I would like to express my gratitude to the great thinkers who came before me and upon whose work I have built: pioneers such as Hippocrates, Claude Bernard, Antoine Bechamp, Ren Dubos, Alexis Carrel, Hans Selye, Walter Cannon, Otto Warburg, Linus Pauling, Roger Williams, Emanuel Cheraskin, Carl Pfeiffer, Russell Jaffe, Russell Blaylock, and many others. I also want to thank my professors and colleagues at MIT who helped to sharpen the critical thinking skills that have helped me to achieve the insights that give value to my work.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason
but because they are not already common.

John Locke

There are three things which will bring the end of civilization, even the mightiest that have ever been or shall be... impure water, impure air, and impure food.

Zend Avesta, 3000 BC

H ealth care in America is a hoaxit is pretending to be something it is not. This hoax is having a devastating impact on our health and quality of life, and it is threatening to destroy our economy and impoverish our people.

The definition of health care is the maintenance or restoration of health. But our healthcare system is not about maintaining or restoring healthits about managing the symptoms of disease. This is disease care, not health care! Managing the symptoms of disease does not prevent or cure disease. We need to transform to a true healthcare system, and it is up to you to help make that a reality.

Practitioners in our so-called healthcare system wait for disease to happen and then suppress the symptoms with toxic chemicals and invasive, health-damaging surgery. Because the underlying causes of ill health are not addressed, health is not maintained, people get sick and stay sick, and the costs skyrocket. Worse, the treatments themselves cause even more disease, pain, suffering, and death. You end up trading your original problem for a whole new set of problems. Instead of maintaining or restoring health , our healthcare system is a hoax that creates and perpetuates disease at enormous cost to society.

Most Americans today are trapped in a disease-care system that has little to do with healthor with science. We have been tricked into believing that disease care is health care and that chronic illnesses cannot be prevented or cured. This ineffective, expensive, and outmoded approach to health care must be discarded. Health is a choice, and you can learn how to choose it. The truth is that you can prevent or reverse almost any diseasewithout toxic drugs or surgeryby supporting the bodys own innate ability to heal itself. To teach you what you need to know, this book offers a simple model of health that can empower almost anyone to get well, stay well, and never be sick again.

The Great American Health Hoax introduces you to a way of life that can become your highway to health. It will attempt to persuade you that you dont have to be sick. First, there is no fun in being sick, and second, we are going broke trying to pay for the cost of disease. As individuals and as a society, health is the solution. But its a solution you must choose. After you decide to choose health, you have to learn how to achieve it. Fortunately, learning how to be healthy has never been easier. This book makes health simple.

By providing you with a simple road map to health, you can get well, stay well, and never be sick again. The goal is to educate a sufficient number of people like you so that we can put an end to our epidemic of chronic disease and provide a solution to the biggest social and economic problem of the twenty-first centurythe problem of global aging.

The Problem

Global aging is the twenty-first centurys major social and economic problem. By the year 2050, the number of old people will exceed the number of young people. In all human history, this has never happened before. The cost of providing pensions and disease care for the elderly is going to be astronomical, and there will not be enough young workers to pay the costs. This economic crisis is coming and unstoppable. We must act now to prepare. We cannot change the demographics, so the best solution is to reduce the need for care. Time is short, and the need is urgent.

The world is in the grip of a rapidly accelerating prevalence of chronic disease. This pandemic is killing us prematurely, lowering our quality of life, threatening our standard of living, and perhaps even threatening the future of our species. Our attempts to manage this problem through our current disease-care system are escalating the costs and presenting unprecedented political, moral, and economic dilemmas.