Grapes For Health And Weight Loss
Review of the Grape Cure ebook for Home
Detox:
How to Lose Weight, Feel Great, and Even Heal What Ails
You with
The
Grape Cure!
In the 1920s, Johanna Brandt of South
Africa said she cured her stomach cancer with what she
called The Grape Cure. A few years later, she wrote a
fascinating book that revealed the specifics of the
natural method she used on her body.
Today you can have for your health library an annotated
and updated version of Johanna Brandt's natural health
classic, a book you can use to lose weight and feel
great. And, yes, the techniques found in this eBook
version of The Grape Cure can still be applied if you
have a serious illness and if you are willing to take
responsibility for your health and illness and work with
a qualified physician who has an interest in nutritional
healing.
So Much Better than a Starvation Diet
Instead of those boring and painful
starvation diets, why not try The Grape Cure to lose
those extra pounds around the middle? Most people who
utilize this natural healing system report losing
anywhere from five to ten pounds a week.
Lots of Fun to Read
Unlike many modern health books that
require a Ph.D. in biology to understand, The Grape Cure
was written by a woman who figured out on her own how to
heal her physical problems. You'll enjoy The Grape Cure
because it reads more like a detective story than it
does a health book.
Extensively Annotated and Updated
I love old natural health books, but I
also realize that the information found in many of them
is occasionally dated or incorrect for modern times.
Consequently, I always add my two-bits worth when I
reprint a classic health book. With my easy-to-read
footnote annotations, you'll have the best overall
information I'm capable of providing for you.
People Healed Cancer and Other Chronic
Ailments with The Grape Cure
In her book, Johanna Brandt shares the
stories of several people that the medical profession
had given up on. These individuals recovered from
desperate cancers, arthritis, and a host of other
chronic diseases simply by taking The Grape Cure.
If you have a chronic condition and if the medical
profession is only making it worse, you may well find
the detailed self-help information in The Grape Cure
appropriate for you. You should, of course, work with a
nutritionally-minded physician who will help you
understand detox symptoms and changes in your body.
Modern Science Supports Aspects of The
Grape Cure
Respected cancer researcher Ralph Moss
wrote enthusiastically about The Grape Cure in the
Spring, 1997, issue of his Media Watch:
Substance in Grapes Inhibits Cancer
Growth
On New Year's Day, 1997, The Boston
Globe reprinted a Reuters dispatch that raises high
hopes about grapes. Red grape skins, it turns out,
contain a substance called resveratrol. According to a
well-known researcher, Dr. John Pezzuto of the
University of Illinois at Chicago, this naturally
occurring phenol "has multiple modes of action,
inhibiting cancer growth at a lot of different stages,
which is unusual." These stages are initiation of DNA
damage, transformation of the cell into cancer, and
growth and spread of the tumor.
Resveratrol Protects against Coronary
Heart Disease
Although resveratrol was first isolated
from a Peruvian legume called Cassia quinquangulata, it
was later found in grapes, particularly red grapes, as
well as in peanuts, mulberries and other plants. It may
also be one of the compounds responsible for wine's
proven ability to protect against atherosclerosis and
coronary heart disease, according to other reports from
the University of Toronto (Clin Chim Acta, 235: 2, 1995
Mar 31, 207-19). Great -- another excuse to drink wine!
(If you do so, try to make it an organic red, since
grapes are very heavily sprayed with pesticides.)
Magical Health Restoring Properties of
Grapes
Again, this makes us think of another
approach long derided by the quackbusters. This was The
Grape Cure, popularized in the U.S. in the 1930s by a
South African woman named Johanna Brandt. You can
sometimes find her slim volume on a dusty shelf in the
health fo
od store. Brandt was herself drawing on
an old European tradition which held that grapes had
almost magical health-restoring properties when eaten in
abundance.
I own an old book called A System of Physiologic
Therapeutics by Solomon Solis Cohen, A.M., M.D.
(Philadelphia: Blakiston's, 1901). In it, Dr. Cohen
shows that there were over a dozen clinics and spas
administering the grape cure in northern Europe at the
turn of the 20th century.
In Baden-Baden (still a center of interest in
alternative medicine) doctors 100 years ago were
combining the "grape cure" with other alternative
practices, such as the "Terrain Cure," i.e. graduated
walking and climbing exercises.
Of course, these were eventually branded as classic
quackery by the drug-oriented doctors. These new reports
from very respectable universities suggest there may
have been something to the "grape cure" after all.
Again, we hope that the A.M.A. will reserve a spot in
its alternative Pantheon for the much maligned Ms.
Brandt.
Well, from painful experience we all well know the
medical and pharmaceutical industries aren't in any
hurry to document the efficiency of a natural weight
loss program or potential cancer cure that people can do
in the comfort and privacy of their own homes at a cost
less than the usual food bill.
I don't know about you, but I prefer to take
responsibility for my own health. You can do the same
thing, and a great place to start is with this annotated
version of Johanna Brandt's The Grape Cure.
Review written by Chet Day
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