Since people don't brag about failures and "dead people don't talk" (I've
definitely read too many thrillers), I thought I would supply a few
non-success stories, all fictive but not unrealistic.


 1. Mrs T. Umor has colon cancer. Her doctor told her that surgery
would leave her 50% chances to survive 10 years. However, as she heard
that an alternative therapy at Bergson Institute has astounding
results, she refused surgery and started the Bergson program. After an
initial improvement (the tumor decreased in size), the disease
eventually came back and she died three years later.

 2. Mel Anoma had prostate cancer. Because he wanted to avoid
chemotherapy, he began searching for alternative solutions. As he
heard, from Mr. Aryou Fromanotherplanet's book "I wanna survive" that
he had healed 9238 patients out of 9240, he took all the money he had
in his savings account ($300.05) to meet him and get some advice. Mr
Fromanotherplanet told him that, with the diet described in his book,
Mel would have 95% chances to survive, but that if he kept eating SAD
and did chemo, he would die after six months. So, Mel did what Aryou
told him, but the tumor didn't shrink in size. After six months, he
went to the doctor again, who urged him to have chemotherapy: it was
now a question of life and death. In despair, Mel agreed, and gave up
the diet which didn't help; but it was too late. The cancer won the
battle the following year. When asked about that embarassing case, Mr
Fromanotherplanet says "Mr Anoma failed to recognize the signs of a
detox crisis. Had he stuck faithfully to the diet, he would still be
alive today".

 3. B. Leaver is not a cancer patient, but is an active health-seeker
who wishes to improve his diet. One day, he went to the library and
found a book called "H2O: the Unlimited Healing Power of Water -a Twelve
Steps Program towards Rejuvenation". The author, G. Poseidon, claims
that his non-toxic, easily digestible, totally liquid diet (based on
raw fruit and vegetable juices) can cure all diseases, including
cancer. His book includes remarkable case histories and awesome
statistics. Mr Leaver, judging that such a powerful diet must be the
best one, started immediately. However, despite some notable
improvements, some problems soon made their appearance: already thin,
he lost 50 pounds, had less energy for work and his mind was totally
absorbed in food. Was his body crying for hunger or was he victim of
the temptations of the cooked world? Whatever, Mr Leaver soon found
himself binging on cookies, and self-inducing vomiting afterwards. He
certainly felt guilty about that but hoped that the problem would
clear once his body became clean enough. However, it didn't, and in
fact, became worse and worse. Be cause he couldn't concentrate on his
job anymore, he was fired a few months later...

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Final note: again, I am not saying that raw food can't help. It
certainly does -as a placebo and also because trying to improve one's
diet implies taking a positive attitude, willing to fight the disease:
in short, has some influence on the mind, which has some healing
power. That raw food has any effect beyond that is still, at best,
hypothetical, but at least, raw food can improve quality of life. On
the other hand, depicting raw food as a miracle cure can but be
damaging -psychologically and sometimes physically, as in my
"non-success story #3".


--Jean-Louis Tu <[log in to unmask]>