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Originally Posted by simmer2
Over here in North America we feel our medicine is the best possible way to treat patients...it's almost an air of cockiness. We completely dismiss other methods as hokey or phony....yet Canada's Life Expectancy is 10th and the US is 36th in the World. Who is #1? Japan. #2? Hong Kong. While those places likely practice Western Medicine, they likely also practice Eastern Medicine...and Eastern medicine has been around for over 3000 years; they've had time to figure out whether something works or doesn't work.
As humans we have a very difficult understanding of things we can't explain so we obviously dismiss them as irrelevant or ridiculous. It's this short-sided viewpoint which completely limits our ability to see anything beyond what is absolute and matter-a-fact.
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Confounding variable: Diet