Reply #6: I'm sorry for the difficulties you and your family have encountered, IdaBriggs,

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I really am, but I'm not convinced that nutrition, in and of itself, is the remedy that restores, heals, rejuvenates. Certainly it isn't likely to do that much harm, but people who take a rigorous regimen of multi-everything still get sick. Some of them die of terminal illness despite life-long devotion to a disciplined diet.

My hunch is that most physicians consider it a key element but not the only element and in many cases not the determining element in individual health profiles.

Your "messenger of God" theme definitely did not work for me.

If you feel nutrition concerns deserve a more influential place in primary care and in hospital course treatment, you can begin a local network, then link to others in other towns, and build yourself a 50-state presence. That might be the best and most fun way to bring pressure to bear on doctors and hospitals to reconsider their plans of treatment in given cases.