I agree with alot of what you are saying. I do not understand why you are so upset.
I hope you get my drift....I had horrible acne until I was 37 - diet did not help, nothing helped...everybody thought I ate junk food...no, it was just the way my body reacted to different things, that is all. Yet, because I ate a good diet most of the time, I really do not have the scarring I could have had. So I had a health problem that I controlled as best as I could with diet, although it was not the only answer. I did what I could, although I suffered through most of it for years.
Since you do not want to read about Dr. Brewer's diet, you should know that his research was instrumental in changing the ob/gyn's rule at the time of pregnant women gaining no more than twenty pounds. (I had a homebirth midwife who was anxious about my weight gain!) His studies were based on many other studies which said that protein and salt had a place on every pregnant woman's diet. Before Dr. Brewer, I had many friends who were put on lasix for their fluid retention. Now, I rarely know of any pregnant women who are put on diet pills (yes!) or diuretics, but it was extremely common twenty years ago.
Mostly my main complaint with medical doctors is that they do not think diet is all that important. I have my Father's medical books from the 1930's, 40's, and 50's which state that it does not matter what a pregnant woman eats since the placenta is a "bloody sieve" and the baby simply grows without much input from the mother. This is how tragedies as DES were pulled off - the doctors did not think the hormones would cross the placenta and affect the baby. These are old doctor tales.
Dr. Brewer is not the only doctor who has done this research. He is backed up by solid research and studies from all around the world of nutrition and dietary research.
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T, but about good doctors and not disputing their advice......
...editted to add: There was a NOVA presentation some years ago on PBS. It was about a parent whose son had constant seizures. The little boy had to wear a helmut on his head to prevent further brain damage from the throes of the seizures. The doctors at the research laboratory, which was connected to a medical school, controlled the little boy's seizures by dosing him with phenobarbitol, a very addicting, very powerful tranquilizer. Then the father went to the medical library connected to the very clinic he was taking his son and read the information on his son's condition. ( Do not know how he could use their library; often medical school libraries are off limits to the public) The information was about a high fat diet that could control seizures. The information was backed up by solid medical studies and a solid grounding in the understanding of how the melanin (sp?) wrappings on the nerves behave with fat in the diet. The research further stated that the child will outgrow the seizures after a while and the child can eat a normal diet as an adult. The father presented this information to the doctors. They said they knew all about it. They were not impressed. So the father fed his son bacon, eggs, cream, and fatty meats, and his seizures subsided...why didn't the doctors feed him the way the research in their own libraries tell them? I guess it is the $. More profits from helmuts and phenobarbitol that from feeding the boy bacon and eggs....although, I guess one can say the cardiologists might make out in the end.
in my state. so anyway, sorry i didn't make that more clear.
