"We live in an epoch in which mankind is rapidly changing its environment, thus opening a Pandora's box in which various germs have been innocently slumbering. The AIDS virus, it seems, is one of these. Will humanity rid itself of this new plague?" Professor Luc Montagnier Before concluding, let us take a short detour through Greek mythology. Luc Montagnier places AIDS within the category of those ills which Pandora's box unleashed upon humanity. In Greek mythology, Prometheus stole fire from the Gods in order to give it to mankind. Zeus, the father of the Gods, punished man by sending a woman, Pandora, to open the container where all the plagues and illnesses were stored. This apparently harmless myth takes on a much deeper meaning if one recalls that fire was used almost exclusively for culinary purposes during that epoch in Greek history. If the various illnesses did escape from Pandora's box, did the transformation of food by fire have anything to do with it? The verdict of the myth is severe: as punishment for his misdeed, Prometheus was chained to a rock where an eagle pecked out his liver for eternity. There is a striking convergence between this myth (suggesting that the use of fire for cooking leads to illness) and the astounding remissions obtained by a natural diet in human subjects and in the cats of Pottenger (raw food = health). Our ancestors doubtless understood, at least subconsciously, that the transformation of food could be heavy with consequences, as they explained in the Prometheus myth. This book takes a hard look at the two most powerful taboos of our modern civilization: sex (via AIDS) and food (the solution we propose). These correspond to the two fundamental instincts of the species, namely self-propagation (the sexual instinct) and self-preservation (the hunger instinct). The mixture is explosive, and will doubtless provoke some controversy. That is why it is important, while informing the public, to avoid emotionalism and to set the debate upon a scientific or even humanitarian basis. By doing so, we avoid wasting time in our confrontation with immune-related illnesses that are threatening to become the plague of the dawning 21st century, and we thus allow all populations to benefit from a lifestyle and a dietary technique that reinforce natural immunity. typed by bodhi from _maximize_immunity_ by bruno comby (c) 1994