Roberta: >I only very recently stumbled across the anopsology text >( at http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Spa/5976 ) >and am trying to get more information (and from there I emailed a number >of people was led to all you folks on this list). So: Anybody with >pertinent access to info about its source, please let me know. When was >that text written? When did Burger have his clinic? Did he treat many >people? Is is still doing that? Did a significant number of his >patients actually got well? Did they really eat a lot of raw flesh >foods? Is that clinic still in practice? (etc etc) Any info greatly >appreciated. G.C. Burger has been eating raw for about 34 years. The book "Instinctotherapie, Manger Vrai" was written in 1990. The previous version of the text was written in 1985 (I think), with the title "La Guerre du cru". Earlier writings were published in the 1970s. Burger doesn't have a "clinic". People began to follow his diet a long time ago, in Switzerland (G. C. Burger is Swiss) but he settled in the "Chateau de Montrame", near Paris, about 10 years ago. He did't "treat" people, just taught how to eat. More than 10000 people went to Montrame, but there are no statistics about how many people have been successfully "treated". All we know is that there have been some successes and some failures. The quantity of flesh foods is extremely variable. On average, people eat less meat or fish than the average Frenchman (or American), but some people "healed" by eating considerable amounts of meat (for a short period of time). When his wife died a few years ago, Burger tried to find as many bad excuses as possible, like that she ate too much meat, and the guideline for people working at Montrame was to eat flesh at no more than 1 meal per week. I have met some people who eat animal food once every few months, but I believe on average instinctos eat animal food more than once a week. GCB has had many problems with the French Justice, for illegal practice of medicine as well as for pedophilia (which he denied). One year ago, GCB was still practicing at Montrame, and also in Germany (Berlepsch), but he was arrested last July. I think that you have more than enough information in the archives http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/raw-food.html You can use the keywords "parasite", "pedophilia", "meat", "fish", "RAF" and of course "instinct". "RAF" stands for "raw animal food". Several instinctos have contributed to this list, so you should have a good overview of the practical aspects of that diet. JL