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The Little Purple Pill It truly is amazing how ignorant people are about their health! After salvation, it's your most precious asset. People spend ten's of thousands of dollars educating themselves at institutions across the country to earn more money to buy more things and all for nil when their health goes south. The drug companies are no better than the tobacco companies. On TV we're constantly bombarded with expensive ads pitched to us about the relief or the enhancement their product will bring to our already over drugged lives so that we'll get our physician to prescribe the "much" needed drug when all we really need to do is look inward and see what we're feeding our body. By the way the tobacco companies and the drug companies both warn us that there are inherent dangers involved in using these products. "Dah" Ever hear of Vioxx? I read this book and as with all books I use discernment. What Dr. Rubin is conveying is just plain old common sense. I found it quite interesting that his father spent $150000 on alternative therapy and he missed the one therapy that would have offered a cure to him in less than 21 days. FASTING. Don't think of me as an over zealous Bible thumper that fasts for spiritual closeness although I hope to at some point in the future. I'm just a 48 year old redneck from Alabama that decided to take personal responsibility for my health. Eight years ago I read a book by Dr. Joel Fuhrman entitled "Fasting and Eating for Health". I read the back cover and it sounded like common sense to me. I read the book but yet I never dreamed I'd undertake a fast. Three years later my wife finally became pregnant via fertility drugs. Our son was born healthy but 6 weeks later my wife was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. The rheumatologist just said we would have to learn to live with prednisone and its side effects. We'd eventually graduate to stronger drugs with worse side effects than prednisone. I'll never forget the exchange I had with this doctor. I asked the reason why my wife would have to have her liver and kidneys tested every 3-6 months. (I already knew why). She responded that there were some side effects. She added that both the liver and kidneys would be under more stress due to the drugs. I suggested trying fasting first and if that didn't work we could always go on drug therapy. Like most people, she thought that I was a nut. Short story now; my wife fasted for 9 days with water only (under an MD's supervision) and was cured. It's been 5 years and she hasn't taken a drug and has no recurrence. Ninety percent of the diseases we suffer from as Dr. Fuhrman says are inflicted with our knife and fork. This is the same message that Dr. Rubin is pushing. I just wish there were more of these "common sense" doctors out there. I agree with another reviewer about the index. That's why I gave it 4 stars instead of 5. Paul Claborn Albertville,Al.