A story about a canoeist with...

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...what is known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in UK

'In September,Hemmings was diagnosed with chronic fatigue

syndrome,the debilitating and little understood illness that

affects between 120,000 and 250,000 people in Britain...'

' ... She tried Oriental medicine,acupuncture and yoga,and

consulted a nutritionist and an endocrinologist,but nothing

helped ease the exhaustion.suffering from chronic fatigue

syndrome..' '... and was so exhausted that she slept for 15

hours a night and was sometimes too tired to wash her hair...'

'... Last month,Hemmings won the 32km marathon in the European

Championships in the Czech Republic...'

'...Practitioners of reverse therapy believe that emotional

blockages in the mind cause the hypothalamus gland to

overreact,leading to responses in the pituitary and

adrenal glands that put the body into a state of red alert...'

(TRADITIONAL MEDICAL VIEW)...

'..Dr Basant Puri, an expert in chronic fatigue syndrome

at Hammersmith Hospital, London, is sceptical that a

therapy based on talking could reverse the effects

of the illness. " This would refute all the powerful evidence

to suggest that it's caused by a viral infection, " he says'

Gimpi

The Tiny goes to The Telegraph UK of 22 August :

http://tinyurl.com/a83ur