7 yr old and forced Radiotherapy
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custodian said:
Well if you read the article, it says that eating healthily after chemo and radiotherapy helped her recovery. Can't really argue with that.
And how do you gauge "helped her recovery"?How do you know she wouldn't have got better quicker eating KFC and chock chip icecream?
Perhaps the feel good factor of eating chock chip would be like placebo.
She was treated with Conventional remedies and got better. That is all we know.
Chemo can leave people feeling like crap, with anaemia and neutropenia, weight loss, opportunistic infections, etc. So suggesting a healthy diet to aid recovery is a bit of a no-brainer.
It doesn't follow, however, that there is any benefit from a diet filled with all kinds of organic crap.
It doesn't follow, however, that there is any benefit from a diet filled with all kinds of organic crap.
TheSnitch said:
Chemo can leave people feeling like crap, with anaemia and neutropenia, weight loss, opportunistic infections, etc. So suggesting a healthy diet to aid recovery is a bit of a no-brainer.
It doesn't follow, however, that there is any benefit from a diet filled with all kinds of organic crap.
exactly, in the immediate aftermath of chemo or radiotherpay any food intake can be good ... but as things return towards normal , yes a healthy, balanced diet covering a bit of everything is a no brainer. It doesn't follow, however, that there is any benefit from a diet filled with all kinds of organic crap.
She's not advocating a healthy balanced diet;
k herself up with fad diet afterwards" is the actual story.
article said:
“My doctor said he had never known anyone be quite so well,” she said. “I would put it down to complementary medicine and alkalining my body.”
An alkaline diet is a common form of alternative medicine that claims to prevent cancer and help the treatment of it by making body fluids less acidic.
Typical woo 'alkali' diets are far from balanced - they can actually be unhealthy because you're cutting out stuff your body needs. "Crazy bint helped by conventional medicine, luckily failed to fAn alkaline diet is a common form of alternative medicine that claims to prevent cancer and help the treatment of it by making body fluids less acidic.
k herself up with fad diet afterwards" is the actual story.Jasandjules said:
Magic water on the NHS. That's ridiculous. CommanderJameson said:
Jasandjules said:
Magic water on the NHS. That's ridiculous. t?! 
BlackVanDyke said:
CommanderJameson said:
Jasandjules said:
Magic water on the NHS. That's ridiculous. t?! king travesty.Deliberations of the select committee from a couple of years back. Well worth a read.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/...
Do you know £20m was spent on refurbishing the London Homeopathic hospital a few years ago? NHS, ie our, money spent buffing up premises for the unsuspecting to have bulls
t witch doctor cobblers practiced on them.It is beyond cobblers, it really is.
TheSnitch said:
BlackVanDyke said:
CommanderJameson said:
Jasandjules said:
Magic water on the NHS. That's ridiculous. t?! king travesty.Deliberations of the select committee from a couple of years back. Well worth a read.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/...
Do you know £20m was spent on refurbishing the London Homeopathic hospital a few years ago? NHS, ie our, money spent buffing up premises for the unsuspecting to have bulls
t witch doctor cobblers practiced on them.It is beyond cobblers, it really is.
TheSnitch said:
Chemo can leave people feeling like crap, with anaemia and neutropenia, weight loss, opportunistic infections, etc. So suggesting a healthy diet to aid recovery is a bit of a no-brainer.
It doesn't follow, however, that there is any benefit from a diet filled with all kinds of organic crap.
but eating well can't cure cancerIt doesn't follow, however, that there is any benefit from a diet filled with all kinds of organic crap.
Therefore it should not be available on the NHS
Jasandjules said:
My mother had her varicose veins removed by surgery at that hospital. They do proper medicine as well!Jasandjules said:
According to my daughter, who works for NHS:Doctors, and the health service in general, are more or less banned from prescribing placebos despite the research suggesting they work.
But, of course, homeopathy isn't a placebo according to the homeopaths so this sidesteps the limitations.
Not defending putting money in the pockets of snake oil salesmen, just commenting on the realities.
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