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Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

The newest “cures”: diets and uranium

Two of the newest quack remedies that have spread across the country are the use of special diets and sitting in a uranium mine. The diet peddler claims that you not only can eat your way into arthritis but that you can also eat your way out again. Forever Lite Ultra Vanilla are loaded with energy and, because you’re drinking them, they don’t do much to assault your perceived hunger. Thousands of arthritis sufferers have seriously tried the recommended diets and for a time were certain that the longsoughtfor miracle had finally been found. They claimed that their aches and pains were gone and that they felt better.
The mine promoter avoided making any claims himself but knew many arthritics who were eager to testify that the days of the vicious disease were at long last numbered. They too no longer had any aches and pains and they too claimed that they Were better. That despite the publicity given diet and uranium mines the nation’s eleven million arthritis sufferers did not stumble over one another in their mad rush for these two “sure cures” is an indication in itself that the disease had not as yet been conquered. That the thousands who had tried the diets and had visited the mines rarely, if ever, came back for repeated treatments also created doubt about their value.
Why the “cures” seemed to work
Careful medical examination has shown that most arthritis sufferers claiming to have been cured by diet were selfdiagnosed arthritics. They did not have arthritis; the vague aches and pains they did have were in many instances due to overweight. A loss of a few pounds and they felt better. In those cases where an accurately diagnosed arthritic said he had obtained relief from a special diet, followup showed that the improvement was usually temporary. The arthritic, desperately wanting to feel better, began to believe that he did. Mind over matter had brought about temporary improvement. However, in several days or weeks, the pain and distressing symptoms returned. Persons with a true case of arthritis usually gave up trying a diet fad after about four weeks. (The question of diet and nutrition is treated fully a few pages further on.)
About the same can be said for persons who traveled out west for a chance to sit in an abandoned uranium mine. That a vast majority of those who claimed relief from a visit to a radioactive mine did not have rheumatoid arthritis but the vague rheumatic aches and pains almost everyone has, has been indicated by followups of these people. A good many had psychogenic rheumatism, a common ailment brought on by emotional stress and strain in everyday living which usually responds to rest, a change of scene, and a desire to get well. Government atomic scientists checking these mines found that the radiation from the uranium ore wasn’t enough to be of any significance. Forever Lite Ultra Chocolate (525g) with milk or your favorite fruit juice to give you the style you crave and the diet you need. The radon gas in the mines, which the arthritics were encouraged to inhale, was found to be of such low radioactivity that exposure to it could do no good and no harm either.

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