Karl posted this interesting account of the circumstances surrounding the
death of Nicole Burger, the wife of instincto pioneer Guy-Claude Burger, on
the live-food list a short while ago, and I am crossposting it here with
his permission.  As there obviously were many contributing factors to her
early death, I do not understand why her consumption of meat was singled
out. I forget what kind of cancer she had but since nobody really knows
what Burger's success rate was with cancer, it seems a little presumptuous
to blame it on the meat.  BTW, does anybody know how Burger is doing
regarding the charges that were brought against him last Summer?

Best, Peter
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Karl:
there was a letter from Montrame which explained (their version) of the
reasons and the course of events of Mrs. Burgers death.

The letter explained that both Burgers acquired the habit of eating lots of
meat during an experimental phase, after they and their friends discovered
the beneficial effects of raw meats, particularly for people who suffered
from cancers.

After some time Mr. Burger developed one small cancer-like melanome on his
legs, which was removed by surgery. He stopped eating meat for some time,
then. After some time, Mrs. Burger, who already was in the menopause, did
get her period again. The reason was cancer. But Mrs. Burger was addicted
and couldn't break the habit of eating meat, she didn't believe in her
husbands new theory that meat can also cause cancer. She ate it
every day and after Orkos stopped delivering it to her, she ordered through
other people. One has to know, that she had _lots_ of bad stress during
that time. She worked a lot, regularly sleeping only 3 hours per day and
her husband was in jail at that time, because of charges of working as a
doctor without admission. (These were dropped much later)

So Mrs. Burger became sicker and sicker and lost a lot of weight. And then
she resorted to conventional medicine. She was treated with chemotherapy and became
artificial food for gaining weight, containing milk products.  Probably
caused by that she did get a pneumonia, from which she recovered when she started Instincto again,
but
it was too late, she died some days later.

This kind of addiction can happen with all kinds of natural foods, but
especially easy with meat and other proteins, like avocados and nuts. It is
caused by regular intake of the food, over-going the natural, instinctive
attraction. This leads to 'tolerance' which means that the body will
tolerate dangerous substances on which he normally would have reacted with
sickness- like symptoms, caused by a immune reaction.

Tolerance and addiction go hand in hand. If one is in tolerance regarding a
food then this food with always smells somewhat attractive or at least it
will be eatable without a sharp stop. And one has to have it, one will not
be satisfied until at least a piece of the food was eaten every day. This
happens especially with proteins. I experienced it with avocados and peanuts.

The tolerance is kept up by even minute amounts of the same food. It can be
stopped by not eating any of the food for at least 3 weeks or so.