NCAHF Newsletter articles from March 1991

NCAHF Newsletter archives from March 1991

Grandma jailed in child water diet death. (Rollande Turgeon)
March 1, 1991... A 9-year old girl died in Ottawa, Canada after being on a water-only diet for 40 days. Mellissa Larochelle was treated at home in the northern Ontario town of Hearst with the diet which, according to provincial police "apparently has some...

How well is California monitoring acupuncture training?
March 1, 1991... A series of letters copied to NCAF suggests poor regulation of acupuncture training in California. After complaining that a local acupuncturist was a former New York bank teller with no medical training who merely had paid $300 and written a...

Herbert critiques the Pritikin program. (Victor Herbert)
March 1, 1991... Victor Herbert, MD, JD, evaluates the safety and effectiveness of the Pritikin Program in the February, 1991 issue of Nutrition & the MD. The Pritikin diet is extremely low in fat (8-10%) and extremely high in fiber (65-75 gm/day). Herbert...

Reigning in problem chiropractors. (Chiropractic Legal Update newsletter)
March 1, 1991... A promising development in curtailing abuses by DCs is a newsletter Chiropractic Legal Update which features reports on legal difficulties experienced by DCs, and developments among regulators and others who are working against health care...

Clinical ecology guru. (William Rea of Dallas, Texas)
March 1, 1991... The practice, patients, and peer criticisms of Dallas, Texas allergist, William Rea, MD are described by Glenna Whitley in "Is the 20th century making you sick?" (D Magazine, Aug, 1990). Known for his colony of disciples who live in one-room...

Montana ND smuggled bogus cancer drugs. (naturopath Peter R. Rothschild)
March 1, 1991... Peter R. Rothschild, a 1989 immigrant from Mexico, was arrested by U.S. Customs agent at his home in Eureka, Montana on February 6. Rothschild claims to be an ordained minister in the Messianic Church for Divine Law and Christian Science, and a...

Cancell. (alternate cure for cancer)
March 1, 1991... Cancell (AKA Entelev, Jim's Juice, Crocinic Acid, Sheridan's Formula, JS-114, Js-101, 126-F) is described by promoters as "an assembly of synthetic chemicals" which react with the body electrically rather than chemically. Cancell, which may...

A childhood chiropractic patient experience. (Linda Rojas)
March 1, 1991... Linda Rojas recalls her sad experience in "My childhood as a chiropractic patient" (Rocky Mountain Skeptic, Sept-Oct, 1990). Told at age 6 that she would be hunchback and blind by age 12, and that she had a bone missing in her back, she endured...

Vitamins and IQ scandal. (London Daily Mirror story on Vitachieve)
March 1, 1991... New York Newsday (3/8/91) writer Kenneth Crowe asks if the refusal to help hustle a children's vitamin was the underlying reason for the resignation of Roy Greenslade as editor of Robert Maxwell's London Daily Mirror. It has been reported that...

Indiana teen permitted bogus cancer remedy. (Tim Wolf, vitamin therapy)
March 1, 1991... Another tragedy may be in the making in Scottsburg, Indiana. The Louisville, KY Courier-Journal (2/18/91) reports that 15-year-old Tim Wolf, who suffers from acute lymphocytic leukemia, has been granted permission by Judge James Kleopfer to...

Feds propose eliminating DC and DPM student loans. (chiropractic and podiatry)
March 1, 1991... Citing the poor repayment record of chiropractic (DC) and podiatry (DPM) students, the Health Education Assistance Loan (HEAL) program proposes to eliminate DC and podiatry students from the program. DC educators are complaining bitterly about...

Enzymatic Therapy, Inc. (corrupt practices)
March 1, 1991... Ira Milner, RD, reports (Nutrition Forum, Nov-Dec, 1990) on his experience of attending a New Jersey seminar along with "more than 100 retailers and a few chiropractors" put on by Enzymatic Therapy, Inc. of Green Bay, Wisconsin. Before the...