jmg@houxk.UUCP (08/12/83)
In response to the inquiry by katz on books concerning food and health, I'm reading a very good one right now by Dr. Anthony J. Sattilaro who is the administrator at Philadelphia Methodist Hospital. Its called "Recalled by Life" (Houghton Mifflin Co. 1982 $12.95) and tells of his recovery from what the experts thought was a hopeless case of cancer. Dr. Sattilaro had radical surgery performed (a rib removed and emasculation) in a desparate attempt to prolong his life but even with this surgery he was only given 18 months to live because the surgery only removed a small part of all the cancer in his body. That was in 1978. He writes that what really saved his life was a dietary system called "macrobiotics". At first he regarded all of this as pure quackery, but he suffered constant pain and the only option he saw open was to give the diet a fair chance to work. The result of the diet was a gradual lessening of his pain and when he submitted himself to further diagnostic tests all traces of cancer were gone. This one is well worth reading. I'll have some other titles to put on the net at a later date. Joe McGhee Bell Labs, Holmdel, N.J.