The Great American Health Hoax: The Surprising Truth about How Modern Medicine Keeps You Sick--How to Choose a Healthier, Happier, and Disease-Free Life

315 Pages·2015·3.01 MB·English

by  Raymond Francis

Health Communications, Inc.
Deerfield Beach, Florida
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Disclaimer: The advice contained in this book is not intended as a substitute for the
advice/medical care of the reader’s physician. The reader should generally consult with a
physician in matters relating to his or her health. Any eating or exercise regimen should be
undertaken after consulting with the reader’s physician.
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© 2014 Raymond Francis
ISBN-13: 978-07573-1849-8 (Paperback)
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
ONE: I Almost Died
TWO: Why It Isn’t Working
THREE: Making Health Simple
FOUR: Your Maintenance List
FIVE: Toxic Foods to Avoid
SIX: Choosing a Better Diet
SEVEN: Toxins Cause Disease
EIGHT: Using Your Mind to Heal
NINE: Physical Factors Affecting Your Health
TEN: It’s Not in Your Genes
ELEVEN: Death by Medicine
TWELVE: The Bottom Line
APPENDIX A:
About Beyond Health International
APPENDIX B:
Foods with Acidic Effect on Body Chemistry
APPENDIX B-2:
Foods with Alkaline Effect on Body Chemistry
Bibliography
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
M
any people helped in bringing this book to completion, and I would
like to express to them my abundant and never-ending gratitude.
First, I am grateful to the wonderful staff at my publisher, Health
Communications Inc., and particularly to my editor, Allison Janse, for her
many years of support, encouragement, and understanding.
I am also grateful to the unflagging support and excellent editing skills
of Norman Hawker and Pamela Strong. Their dedication and willingness
to work long hours on short notice helped to make this work a better,
more readable, more useful book.
A huge debt also goes to my friends Richardine O’Brien, Mollie Meyers,
Richard Higgins, and Joan Carole, who each contributed in their own
way. I also want to thank Jeanelle Topping for her superior skills in
organizing the bibliography.
Last, I would like to express my gratitude to the great thinkers who
came before me and upon whose work I have built: pioneers such as
Hippocrates, Claude Bernard, Antoine Bechamp, René Dubos, Alexis
Carrel, Hans Selye, Walter Cannon, Otto Warburg, Linus Pauling, Roger
Williams, Emanuel Cheraskin, Carl Pfeiffer, Russell Jaffe, Russell
Blaylock, and many others. I also want to thank my professors and
colleagues at MIT who helped to sharpen the critical thinking skills that
have helped me to achieve the insights that give value to my work.
INTRODUCTION
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without
any other reason
but because they are not already common.
—John Locke
There are three things which will bring the end of civilization, even
the mightiest that have ever been or shall be . . . impure water,
impure air, and impure food.
—Zend Avesta, 3000 BC
H
ealth care in America is a hoax—it is pretending to be something it
is not. This hoax is having a devastating impact on our health and
quality of life, and it is threatening to destroy our economy and
impoverish our people.
The definition of health care is “the maintenance or restoration of
health.” But our healthcare system is not about maintaining or restoring
health—it’s about managing the symptoms of disease. This is disease
care, not health care! Managing the symptoms of disease does not
prevent or cure disease. We need to transform to a true healthcare
system, and it is up to you to help make that a reality.
Practitioners in our so-called healthcare system wait for disease to
happen and then suppress the symptoms with toxic chemicals and
invasive, health-damaging surgery. Because the underlying causes of ill
health are not addressed, health is not maintained, people get sick and
stay sick, and the costs skyrocket. Worse, the treatments themselves
cause even more disease, pain, suffering, and death. You end up trading
your original problem for a whole new set of problems. Instead of
maintaining or restoring health, our healthcare system is a hoax that
creates and perpetuates disease at enormous cost to society.
Most Americans today are trapped in a disease-care system that has
little to do with health—or with science. We have been tricked into
believing that disease care is health care and that chronic illnesses cannot
be prevented or cured. This ineffective, expensive, and outmoded
approach to health care must be discarded. Health is a choice, and you
can learn how to choose it. The truth is that you can prevent or reverse
almost any disease—without toxic drugs or surgery—by supporting the
body’s own innate ability to heal itself. To teach you what you need to
know, this book offers a simple model of health that can empower almost
anyone to get well, stay well, and never be sick again.
The Great American Health Hoax introduces you to a way of life that
can become your highway to health. It will attempt to persuade you that
you don’t have to be sick. First, there is no fun in being sick, and second,
we are going broke trying to pay for the cost of disease. As individuals
and as a society, health is the solution. But it’s a solution you must
choose. After you decide to choose health, you have to learn how to
achieve it. Fortunately, learning how to be healthy has never been easier.
This book makes health simple.
By providing you with a simple road map to health, you can get well,
stay well, and never be sick again. The goal is to educate a sufficient
number of people like you so that we can put an end to our epidemic of
chronic disease and provide a solution to the biggest social and economic
problem of the twenty-first century—the problem of global aging.
The Problem
Global aging is the twenty-first century’s major social and economic
problem. By the year 2050, the number of old people will exceed the
number of young people. In all human history, this has never happened
before. The cost of providing pensions and disease care for the elderly is
going to be astronomical, and there will not be enough young workers to
pay the costs. This economic crisis is coming and unstoppable. We must
act now to prepare. We cannot change the demographics, so the best
solution is to reduce the need for care. Time is short, and the need is
urgent.
The world is in the grip of a rapidly accelerating prevalence of chronic
disease. This pandemic is killing us prematurely, lowering our quality of
life, threatening our standard of living, and perhaps even threatening the
future of our species. Our attempts to manage this problem through our
current disease-care system are escalating the costs and presenting
unprecedented political, moral, and economic dilemmas.
Ending this epidemic is a necessity. The alternative is to continue to
choose disease, the consequences of which may be catastrophic. The
rapid rise in chronic illnesses in children and adults is made worse by the
fact that the number of older people is rapidly increasing. Disease-care
costs are increasing and, even at present levels, are threatening to
bankrupt the world’s major economies, with the United States becoming
like a third-world country, unable to pay its financial obligations. The
resulting economic and financial meltdown will place unprecedented tax
burdens on a shrinking working population and have a major effect on
everything from our lifestyles to our political systems, and even our
military security. Once this happens, daily life for most U.S. citizens will
get dramatically worse.
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