Re: RE: Ken and Protein & pH

[Guest guest]

Several years ago I read a book by an anthropologist, born and raised in

Japan who came to the US to get a PhD in anthropology and never left. As an

anthropologist she later returned to look at Japanese medical practice and

then contrasted this to US medicine. I cannot recall the name of the author

and book.

In Japanese medicine there is a more stringent criteria for looking at pH

levels and patients are treated for variations in pH that would be ignored in

the US.

The practice of traditional Japanese medicine, which was derived from Chinese

medicine, was prohibited after World War II but by the time she wrote the

book, about ten years ago, this ban had been lifted.

She found that the average Japanese patient received about two minutes of the

physician's time in a visit. Japanese physicians were paid by the number of

prescriptions written, with the result that many prescriptions were written.

I think I read a few years ago that a law was passed in Japan to discontinue

paying physicians by the prescription.

I could go on and on but the pertinent point is that in Japan even small

variations in pH level are considered a risk to health.

Bonnes