Ageing, Healthy, and in Control: An Alternative Approach to Maintaining the Health of Older People |
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Page 37
... believe that illness is not their fault , and that both the prevention and remedy for disease is not our responsibility . Diseases are seen as discrete entities invading our bodies . The ' germ invasion theory ' has suited the human ego ...
... believe that illness is not their fault , and that both the prevention and remedy for disease is not our responsibility . Diseases are seen as discrete entities invading our bodies . The ' germ invasion theory ' has suited the human ego ...
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... believe that whilst the patient appears to get well , it is at the cost of more serious and lasting chronic disease appearing in later years . Allopathic medicine treats the symptoms of illness . The ' germ ' theory of disease typifies ...
... believe that whilst the patient appears to get well , it is at the cost of more serious and lasting chronic disease appearing in later years . Allopathic medicine treats the symptoms of illness . The ' germ ' theory of disease typifies ...
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... believe that the future is not entirely desolate . The problem which underlays loss is that mankind attempts to rationalize its own existence . Man is gifted with reason ; he is life being aware of itself . . . This awareness of himself ...
... believe that the future is not entirely desolate . The problem which underlays loss is that mankind attempts to rationalize its own existence . Man is gifted with reason ; he is life being aware of itself . . . This awareness of himself ...
Contents
reasserting personal control | 64 |
combating loneliness | 82 |
Diet and nutrition | 98 |
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