.....they got the diet part wrong again.....

[ldubois7]

This is from the foundation newsletter. It is a good overall piece that our docs and family would benefit from reading.....except why can’t any research give credit to the fact that certain foods are at the core of this disease?


http://www.ibdclinic.ca/what-is-ibd/mic ... c-colitis/

[tex]

Good question. This is just my own opinion, but my personal opinion is that the allopathic medicine industry feels that they are in partnership with the pharmaceutical industry and they feel very uncomfortable recommending dietary or any other "natural" treatments in lieu of writing a prescription for a medication when treating medical issues. In general, they seem very reluctant to do anything that might compromise the "bond" that they seem to have formed with the pharmaceutical industry.

Look at vitamin D, for example. Up until very recently, when a patient was vitamin D deficient, doctors prescribed D2 rather than recommending that the patient pick up some D3 (over-the-counter). Medical evidence was published many years ago showing that D2 is far inferior to D3. Yet they continued to prescribe D2, because D3 was available without a prescription.

And of course this trickles down to the field of medical research, also. Since Big Pharma finances most medical research, if a research team wants to research drugs, there's plenty money available. But if they want to research any treatment methods that don't require expensive drugs, finding financial support for that research will probably prove to be a formidable task. So researchers almost always choose to go with the money, because they love to eat, and most of them have families to support.

Obviously, if there's no published medical research to support a "drug-free" treatment, then there's no valid proof that it works, so no doctor can afford to support it (the legal department of the hospital will monitor that). And if a doctor tries an unsupported treatment and it backfires, the lawyers will crucify him or her. As long as he or she follows the "rules", the law will protect them when a case goes awry.

But that's just my opinion.

Tex

[ldubois7]

Tex,

It has to be that answer, because medical doctors don’t even take classes in nutrition.
They don’t understand the connection.

It’s very sad, because we suffer because of the greed. But, is that anything new??

[Erica P-G]

I read that article too Linda, and wondered the same exact thing.....it was a rather good article until I got to the food part...that was a big let down :-(