#9: But It’s Natural, and Natural is Good! When you really stop to think, is there any reason a remedy SHOULD be better just because it’s natural? There are plenty of natural poisons, from hemlock to strychnine. Plants have to protect themselves from predators, and they have invented quite an array of chemical defenses. We [...]

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#8: Acupuncture. There were originally 360 acupuncture points (based on the number of days of the year rather than on anatomy). Currently more than 2,000 acupuncture points have been ‘discovered,’ leading one wag to comment that there was no skin left that was not an acupuncture point. There were either 9, 10 or 11 meridians–take [...]

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#7: What to Eat: Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants. “Organic” has become a meaningless buzzword; I flinch when I see it on a label: it inclines me not to buy that product. What we really want is sustainable agriculture that does minimal damage to the environment and produces food that is nutritious, tastes good, [...]

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