Metabolic treatments sound appealing. They emphasize "natural" therapy with treatment directed at "cellular detoxification and restoration." But these treatments are neither natural nor safe. Many people have been harmed by them. Like most unproven treatments, metabolic therapy is based on an invented principle: that toxins and waste materials in the body interfere with metabolism and healing. Cancer and other chronic illnesses are seen as the result of degeneration of the liver and pancreas or of the degeneration of the immune and "oxygenation" systems.
The educated consumer will know that there is no such thing as an oxygenation system. Nor is there any such thing as cellular detoxification and restoration.
Special Diets The "miracle diet" that cures cancer is a staple of the tabloid press. You can read about these diets at the checkout counter of any supermarket, but not in many other places.
Such diets are a good example of the faulty logic that often accompanies a misunderstanding of scientific information. People read or hear that low-fat diets may help prevent some cancers. Eating a low-fat, high-fiber diet, for example, can lower the risk of developing some kinds of cancer. But some people then make an illogical leap from prevention to cure and assume that these same dietary measures can cure a cancer once it has started to grow.
