OK this appeared in my email today and after I read it my blood was boiling. It's bad enough that the drug companies only care because they want to sell us something - now I'm getting stuff in my email claiming that doctors don't know the cause of fibro or how to treat it, but mysteriously this lady has information that the AMA seems to have overlooked...yeah...right. It might be just a bit more interesting if it came from someone who didn't want to sell us something :)

Read at your peril - and keep your grain of salt close at hand.

Blessings,

Sue

The real story on fibromyalgia

Hi Sue

Let's play a little "imagine game" for a moment.

Imagine every morning you wake up and hurt from head to toe.

Various areas of your body are extremely sensitive and
tender to the touch. Even slight movement causes
excruciating, debilitating pain.

Getting a hug, sneezing or going over a bump in a car
makes you see stars.

Plus you have trouble sleeping, fatigue, swollen glands,
stress, anxiety and irritability.

AND you might even have a doctor that tells you that all
of your symptoms are in your head and sends you off with an
anti-depressant.

Welcome to the world of fibromyalgia.

Fibromyalgia affects nearly 6 million Americans. Even
though most people have heard of it, it remains this vague
condition that isn't easily understood.

To explain fibromyalgia, I'll give a very brief biology
lession:

"Fibro" means connective tissue and "myalgia" means muscle
pain. So fibromyalgia is a painful condition affecting the
connective tissues of our muscles.

If you were to see a cross section of one of your muscles,
you'd see yarn-like strands of fiber, each of which is
wrapped in connective tissue. Bundles of those yarn
strands are gathered together and each bundle is wrapped in
more connective tissue.

Then all those bundles are wrapped together in connective
tissue which forms the muscle. The muscle is then
connected to bones by tendons or to other muscles by
ligaments. (Both tendons and ligaments are connective
tissues too.)

So you can see that a connective tissue problem can cause
pain ALL OVER in and all around your muscles.

OK, biology lesson over.

Fibromyalgia is a mystery to most people because many
members of the mainstream medical community can't explain
why it occurs, nor do they have any answers for treatment
besides drugs for the pain, sleeplessness and mood swings
(which of course means anti-depressants).

There's a great reason why they can't explain fibromyalgia-
- because it is linked to acidity and toxic wastes in the
body caused primarily by diet.

Most traditional doctors take just one single, solitary
course in nutrition, and pay little or no attention to the
connection between cleansing the body internally,
maintaining an alkaline pH and the prevention of disease.

The focus of their training is, surprise, surprise...drugs
and surgery. That's it. If a drug ain't gonna fix it, and
if the knife won't do it, then it can't be fixed.

Let me explain what's REALLY going on with fibromyalgia:

When we eat foods that are acid creating in the body
(including processed food, badly combined foods and other
foods that inherently create acid in the body), the wastes
from those foods don't just disappear into thin air once
the food is digested and we have a bowel movement.

No--there's a lot more going on behind the scenes.

Foods that create acid in the body result in toxins.
These toxins are absorbed into the bloodstream from the
intestines and are carried all over the body.

The lymphatic system (our "garbage collection" system)
tries like heck to rid the body of these wastes through its
"exits"--the lungs, skin, bowel and bladder--but it can
only do so much.

If it's really overloaded with toxins, the lymphatic
system can't handle them all and they end up being stored
in our organs, tissues and bones.

Toxins that have accumulated in the muscles and connective
tissues rear their ugly heads as fibromyalgia.

(BTW, wastes that accumulate in the joints become
arthritis, and when they accumulate in the ligaments,
tendons and connective tissues surrounding the organs, they
becomes lupus.)

And unless you stop what is creating fibromyalgia to begin
with--eating in a way that creates acid in your body--your
chance of ever feeling any better is about as good as
putting a fire out by dumping gasoline on it.

Another important point is that not only are drugs useless
in the treatment of fibromyalgia--they can also be harmful
and downright deadly.

Drugs add to the acidity in the body. So yes, Virginia,
when your doctor hands you the little white piece of paper
with his scribble, he's making your fibromyalgia WORSE--not
better.

And it doesn't stop there. The Washington Post reported
on a study that appeared in the Journal of the American
Medical Association revealing that 2 million people are
seriously injured each year taking prescription drugs as
directed, and 106,000 die! Many estimates put that number
over 200,000 prescription drug deaths each year. Just in
the U.S. alone.

Death by taking drugs as directed. What does that tell
you about the safety of these chemical potions?

If you REALLY want help with fibromyalgia (or want to help
make sure you never get it in the first place), there's
something that's safe and very easy to use.

It's called Great Taste No Pain.
- http://www.greattastenopain.com/great.asp

Cleansing and eliminating acidity from your body by eating
delicious alkaline-creating foods in the combinations that
make for easy digestion and assimiliation.

It isn't a diet. There are no special potions, pills or
powders to buy. It's just a way of eating that respects
that your body is alkaline and needs to stay alkaline to be
truly healthy and strong.

Less acidity means less inflammation in ALL areas of the
body--including around the muscles for you fibromyalgia
sufferers.

Get it and use it--and I know you'll feel a LOT better
very soon.

To your health,

Sherry Brescia