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TABLE II delineates the efficacy of therapeutic fasting on 443 cases at the Pawling Health Manor at Hyde Park, New York. Clinic Director Robert Gross explained that a number of the patients reflected in this data were unable to remain long enough to undertake a fast, or periodic fasts of sufficient length. This was considered a key reason why a number of cases either fell short of total recovery, or did not measurably respond. Even so taken overall, their fasting therapeutic program demonstrated a recovery rate of 71.2 percent, a partial recovery rate of 24.2 percent, <strong>and</strong> a failure rate of 4.6 percent. 103 TABLE II. CLINICAL RESULTS OF THERAPEUTIC FASTING PAWLING HEALTH MANOR DIAGNOSED DISEASE CONDITION NUMBER OF CASES TREATED BY FASTING NUMBER OF CASES FULLY RECOVERED NUMBER OF CASES NO MEASURABLE RESPONSE High Blood Pressure 54 38 0 Arthritis 42 28 4 Hepatitis 36 34 0 Goiter 33 18 3 Heart Disease 31 18 0 Mental Disorders 29 19 0 Bronchitis 24 22 1 Colitis 23 11 0 Hay Fever 22 7 0 Pyorrhea 20 8 0 Asthma 19 16 3 Ulcers 14 8 2 Diabetes 14 12 0 Kidney Disease 12 10 0 Gallstones 11 6 0 Anemia 11 7 0 Gonorrhea 8 8 0 Poliomyelitis 8 6 0 Appendicitis 6 6 0 Epilepsy 5 3 0 34
2.3 ADVERSE IMPACTS ON HEALTH OF MODERN CIVILIZATION As pointed out in the earlier <strong>historical</strong> overview, the excessive consumption of highly processed foods with its high intake of processed sugars, refined carbohydrates <strong>and</strong> fats has been immensely damaging to the health of Canada’s first peoples. T.L. Cleave a former surgeoncaptain in the Royal Navy <strong>and</strong> Director of Medical Research at the Institute of Naval Medicine coined the term “saccharine disease” for the multiple diseases stemming from the overconsumption of refined foods, deficient in vitamins, minerals, fiber <strong>and</strong> quality proteins. (The term “saccharine”, with an e means “related to sugar”, the suffix is pronounced like the river Rhine, which distinguishes it from the word saccharin which is used for a common synthetic chemical sweetener.) After long years of research, including trial <strong>and</strong> error in medical practice, he devised the following classifications of specific nutrition related causes for varied degenerative disease conditions. I. Conditions due to the removal of fiber in foods: a. Simple constipation (intestinal stasis), with its complications of venous ailments (varicose veins, deep venous thrombosis, haemorrhoids, <strong>and</strong> varicocele), diverticular disease, <strong>and</strong> to a degree, cancer of the colon. b. Dental caries (in conjunction with the taking of refined sugars) <strong>and</strong> periodontal disease. II. Conditions due to the over-consumption of refined foods: Diabetes, Obesity, <strong>and</strong> Coronary thrombosis Primary E. coli infections <strong>and</strong> gall-stones II. Conditions due to the loss of quality protein in refined foods: Peptic ulceration. 104 He refers to these varied manifestations of degeneration as: …parts of a single master-disease, mostly erupting within the past 100 years, particularly such conditions as colonic stasis (with its diverticular <strong>and</strong> venous complications) <strong>and</strong> extending through the Escherichia coli infections, peptic ulcer <strong>and</strong> diabetes right up to the dreaded coronary thrombosis, what have the thous<strong>and</strong>s of highly academic papers published on these conditions so far achieved? They have produced miraculous surgical <strong>and</strong> pharmacological antidotes to the ravages produced by these conditions on the human body, but the conditions have not been stopped from occurring; on the contrary they are commoner now than they ever were, <strong>and</strong> most of them are still getting commoner. Nor have members of our own profession (medicine) been in any way absent from the sufferers in this remorseless advance. May not the author therefore plead, with all humility, that there may be room for a different type of work, embodying a much greater reverence for Nature herself? 105 It is estimated that today approximately 75% of foods eaten by North Americans are either highly processed or fabricated. Although literally billions of dollars have been invested by western world governments in studying the degenerative diseases, the fact remains that the major <strong>historical</strong> shift from whole to highly processed foods <strong>and</strong> its cumulative effect on health <strong>and</strong> disease are not being studied at the present time in any substantive way. 35
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Physician Mathias Rath heads a rese
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making the valuable changes which w
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“the number of funerals we have p
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to support. Doctors, dentists, phar
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17. G. Wharton James, Learning from
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56. J. B. Waldram, et al., Aborigin
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“glyconutrients”. They did rema
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114. Weston Price, Nutrition <stron
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A. Lacey, Editor, Light Microscopes
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Medical Association Journal, No. 37
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195. V Scheibner, Dynamics of Criti
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214. B.V. Howard, et. al., Rising T
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242. Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Netwo
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ANNEX I. INFECTIOUS DISEASE THEORIE
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4. CARE PROVIDERS CARE PROVIDERS Th
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