hat if you could cure all your health problems and lose 10 pounds in just 7 days? That\u2019s an amazing claim, hard to believe for sure, but I have seen this miracle so many times in my practice that even I am starting to believe it!\u201d<\/p>\n
Straight away, the words of Dr Mark Hyman, sometime physician to Bill Clinton, talk-show regular and bestselling author, set off alarm bells. He\u2019s promoting an \u201canti-inflammatory\u201d, \u201cdetox\u201d diet. Well, for two decades, I\u2019ve been in the business of writing careful, evidence-based, often hype-busting stories about methods of improving health and treating disease, and I can\u2019t help assuming this will be like every other fad diet destined to crumble in the face of scientific evidence.\u00a0What if you could cure all your health problems in just 7 days<\/em>? Yeah, that certainly sounds like a miracle. And I don\u2019t believe in miracles. But the fact is, I could do with one.<\/p>\n Three years ago, I found out I was in the early stages of a chronic, incurable disease. I have followed what advice my specialist could give me, but my test results have only worsened. Without any evidence-based options remaining, I can only sit back and wait until I become reliant first on a daily pill and then on an injectable drug, while my risks of developing a host of other diseases, including various cancers, soar.<\/p>\n Or\u2026 I could step outside the world of mainstream medicine.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve been a science and health journalist for a long time. I\u2019m not about to abandon a belief in the importance of randomised controlled trials for separating medicine from quackery. There\u2019s no chance I\u2019ll take up homeopathy or purchase a \u2018healing crystal\u2019. But I am seriously considering an approach that, as far as I can tell, has a growing body of evidence behind it.<\/p>\n It involves thinking of food as medicine, and designing a diet that is not just healthy but can actively treat certain forms of illness. I know there are diets that can help with specific diseases, like epilepsy. So what about mine?<\/p>\nReference:<\/h4>\n
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