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Researchers at the Academic Hospital in Ghen University
in Belgium evaluted the blood values of twenty men who had
an average age of thirty-six and had been macrobiotic for
about eight years. According to the tests, all the men were
very healthy. J. P. Deslypere, M.D., one of the researchers,
concluded, “[In} the field of cardiovascular and cancer risk
factors this kind of blood is very favorable. It’s ideal; we
couldn’t do better; that’s what we’re dreaming of. It’s really
fantastic, like children, whose blood vessels are still completely
open and whole. This is a very impotant matter, deserving
our full attention.”
In 1982, Dr. Robert S. Mendelsohn, Chairman, Medical
Licensure Commitee, U.S.A, stated: “Macrobiotic movement,
which once was regarded as out of the mainstream, has now
become very mainstream. Cancer will be conquered by the
universal truths like macrobiotics.” In a 1987 review of special
diets, the American Medical Association advised: “In general,
the macrobiotic diet is the healthy way of eating.”
In a study of patients with advanced malignancies who
followed a macrobiotic way of eating, Vivien Newbold, M.D.,
a USA physician documented six cases of remission. The
patients had pancreatic cancer with metastases to the liver;
malignant melanoma; malignant astrocytoma; endo-metrial
stromal sarcoma; adenocarcinoma of the colon; and inoperale
intra-abdominal leimyosarcoma. Review of CT scans and other
medical tests revealed no evidence of tumors after adherence
to the macrobiotic diet. All of the patients (except for one
whose cancer came back after she discontinued macrobiotics)
were reported working full time, leading very active lives,
and feeling in excellent health. In a review of her study,
Congressional investigators recommended further research
on the macrobiotic approach to cancer: “If cases such as
Newbold’s were presented in the medical literature, it
might help stimulate interest among clinical investigators
in conducting controlled, prospective trials of macrobiotic
regimes, which could provide valid data on effectiveness.”

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