Mike, my guess is that old Hazel got healthy for one reason: She DECIDED to!
Attitude is everything. Sam Earle You're entitled to my opinion. mailto:[email protected] Wednesday, October 06, 1999, 7:01:11 AM, you wrote: >> Here's a site from a woman who believes an acid ph is preferable. >> She lived to be 106 so what's that tell ya? >> >> http://www.alternativemedicine.com/digest/issue08/i08-a18.shtml >> >> Sharon >> > This stuff is always so tantalizing but frustrating. I'm in the > middle of reading this article as I write this, and there's nothing > terribly wrong with it, except that they're talking about how she > measures the "energy" of people and foods to see if it's good or > bad, rising or falling, etc. > They don't give an explanation of how it's being measured or just > *what* it is she's measuring! > That's the kind of crap that spoils these things for me. How in the > hell is someone going to be able to reproduce her results? Or is it a > big secret for commercial reasons? > Anyhow, I'll keep reading, since the conclusions she reaches may be > interesting and useful however vague the description of her > experimental methods happens to be in this article. > ... a few minutes later ... > Now I've read to the end of the article. Apparently the > "determination board" is at least one method for checking these > energy levels they talk about. It seems to be a plexiglas box with a > protractor scale on the top and you're supposed to put a "witness" > sample and the test sample on top of it in the circle. > The description isn't totally clear, but it appears you're then > supposed to dangle a silver pendulum they give you over the board and > samples and read off the angle number it swings toward to see if the > "energy" is good or not. > Wow, sounds scientific! <NOT!> > Oh, and how about this: "Make sure it is the old-fashioned, pure > Chlorox; this is hydrochloric acid, not chlorine." Boy that's a > concise and sensible statement that a chemist would understand and > agree with! Err, sorry!!! <grin> > Look, I'm stubbornly open minded on this stuff. I *want* to find out > what works. In other words, I'm not willing to dismiss it just > because *some* of the people writing about it are horribly inept, > but it sure as hell doesn't move me towards belief, either. > It's entirely obvious why so many people reject this stuff and > it's not taken seriously outside our community. > Heck, the other day I had to reassure my wife, the biologist, that > I'm not being deceived by this sort of foolishness, but am trying to > look past it to get to the interesting stuff. She knows me better > than that, but reading some of it made her doubt *my* good sense. > When you know the science behind some of this stuff reading articles > like this are actually distasteful. It's no wonder we have problems > getting our ideas considered. > So, folks, if you read something and don't understand it there are > at least *two* possible reasons why: You don't have the technical > training to understand the terminology or science involved; You > can't understand it because it's *not* understandable, either > because it's bullshit, or presented so poorly that nobody could > figure it out even if it was the gospel truth! > Bottom line, Dr. Hazel Parcells' stuff sounds interesting enough, but > keep your hip boots handy. If they've got the kind of info that would > impress the open minded medical or scientific person it's *not* to be > found in this article. > It all comes back to the results. I know *some* of what's out there > is actually valid. The fact that people get good results from some of > these things is compelling. It's just so damned tiring to have to > wade through the nonsense to get to it, though. > Be well, > Mike > (feeling a bit weary this morning, I guess!) > [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] > [[email protected] ] > [Speaking only for myself... ] > -- > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: > [email protected] -or- [email protected] > with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
