One of the best books(the second in the series) dealing with health, the body, mind, and spirit that I have found. Succinct, yet almost poetic.Here's a review from Bookpleasures that may help.

Modern allopathic medicine has become particularly famous for ignoring the real cause of illness and focusing only on the symptomatic treatments. This approach works wonderfully for creating corporate profits but is certainly not for the purpose of encouraging the health of a population. The medical industrial complex knows that prevention and cures do not add up to monetary gain and therefore real prevention is discouraged.

In her book "Forget The Cures: Find The Cause, Rayna Gangi focuses on prevention as the answer to our health care crisis. Most of us would like to find a magic pill which would cure all of our problems and yet still allow us to continue in our unhealthy habits......but.....Gangi shares with us how many of these "magic pills" only cause more problems which require additional pills. Unfortunately, most of the time the answer lies in avoidance......avoidance of refined foods, caffeine, alcohol, fluoride, food additives and other chemicals in our environment. This is becoming more difficult as time goes on but we can reduce the toxic load we are exposed to. Every little bit helps us.... and the world we live in.

The author tells of the dangers of microwave ovens and how this form of heating our food can adversely affect the shape, function and energy of it's molecules. There is a section in the book concerning pets and the additives included in their food. Is it any wonder our pets are manifesting with the same cancers and other health problems as we humans are? Gangi writes about how much more connected wild animals are to their environment. They instinctively know and are attuned to what is healthy for them and what is not. Indigenous cultures also had this instinctive knowledge but the more we became separated from God and the land, the more we became separated from this natural wisdom and health.

Gangi talks about children, Attention Deficit Disorder, the symptoms of hyperactivity and the drugs prescribed for it. I would like to share a quote from page 86 of her book. "No study has been done to date on the correlation between these symptoms and the same correlations with the use of fluoride, aspartame, microwaves, sugar and the proven neurological effects. In other words, we have a society being diagnosed with a new condition, being given drugs that have more adverse effects, because we have a society that fluoridates water, lives on pesticides, injests jet fuel on plants and through water, bathes in carcinogenic chemicals, inoculates every child thirty-six times, then microwaves food and junk filled with sugar, preservatives and chemical additives. I believe I would "squirm," not pay attention to detail, and feel like leaving my seat often too."

Nearer the end of the book Gangi speaks of how at a specific age , we are considered "seniors". 50 or 55 is often the designated cutoff point. I found this section of the book interesting because the idea of categorizing people rankles me also. Being past the age of 50, I personally feel as if life is just beginning. Modern society only seems to value the young and the work that can be squeezed out of them. Ancient societies have always valued their elders for their knowledge and wisdom, which would be passed down to the younger generations. Today, instead of stressing that older people have valuable wisdom to offer......society encourages the elders to separate themselves from society....to move to Florida or other retirement areas....to fill their days with golf, cards, crafts, TV...etc. They become divorced from the main pulse of life. I feel this is a facet of social engineering. Governments are better able to control the people when the young are separated from their parents and from their grandparents. Our children derive their values from whomever they spend most of their time with.

As the author brings out.....we need to see that growing older, does not mean growing useless. In fact this is a time of life where we need to reflect on the true meaning of life and to share what we have learned with those who have not yet had the same experiences we have had.

Gangi reminds us that in order to stay healthy , we need to tend to all aspects of ourselves...the mental, the emotional, the physical and the spiritual. We need to find balance and harmony in our lives. If we pay more attention to these factors FIRST....then we will have much less need to focus on treatments or cures.This book is a good overview of what we need to do to stay healthy and avoid the expense and dangers of allopathic medicine.


The above review was contributed by: Marjorie Tietjen: Marjorie is a freelance investigative journalist with a B.S. in nutrition. She writes on various topics but has a special interest in public health, education and awareness. Her writings can be found online and in several print publications.