The sole purpose of nutrition is to build and maintain health. It is not concerned with the treatment of disease. Unfortunately, most people become interested in building health--hence in nutrition--only after they are ill.

In literally hundreds of these conditions, the cause is still unknown; yet in every case the same nutrients are required to repair the body.

If the diet were completely adequate, the painful tongue would heal without our slightest knowledge of niacin amide. When all building materials are supplied to the cells and damage is not irreparable, nature will do the healing, and she cares not one whit if we understand how she does it.

Dozens of diseases formerly considered to be incurable are now readily corrected. The word "incurable," therefore, cannot invariably be defined as incapable of remedy. The method of correction may at present merely be unknown. Because sound nutrition has rarely been tried, its role in rebuilding health in cases of "incurable" illnesses is still a mystery.

Each child's physician referred to his recovery as "one of the few spontaneous cures ever recorded." Similarly, several children with "incurable" heart malformations, kept on excellent diets containing 100 units of vitamin E daily since babyhood, are now 8 to 14 years old and are, with their doctors' permission, active in athletics; none require heart surgery, which had earlier been considered necessary. A few doctors have been correcting congenital heart conditions for years with vitamin E. "The doctor says it's a miracle." The miracle lies only in the body's fantastic ability 'to repair itself. Since damage may be irreparable or factors other than nutritional may have caused an illness, good results from an improved diet cannot always be expected.

Until further research can throw light on little-understood diseases, the chance that health may be rebuilt makes adequate nutrition imperative.

Often irreparable damage has already been done, and the best of nutrition cannot bring improvement. Within the last few years, for example, some 30 new diseases, called "congenital errors of metabolism" have been identified in which children are born without certain essential enzymes. Even genes and chromosomes, however, require nutrients for their formation. The cause of these new diseases is undoubtedly the appallingly inadequate diets eaten by women during their pregnancies, yet the tragedies have already occurred.

Though permanent repair cannot be achieved, faulty nutrition often adds to the misery of the afflicted and of those caring for him. Usually the symptoms of nutritional deficiencies are thought of as part of the particular illness and are not recognized as unnecessary burdens. A personal friend who worked in a school for children with cerebral palsy improved the school lunches and persuaded parents to give better diets and nutritional supplements to their youngsters. The staff soon noticed less irritability and crying, greater alertness, better bladder control, and fewer colds and general illnesses; and the muscles of some children improved so much after vitamin E was given them that they could hold pencils and write for the first time. In the same way, improved nutrition often makes life easier for both the patient and his family even though little else can be expected.

Probably no one could read the history of medicine without being amazed at the number of "incurable" diseases existing in the past which are now readily corrected. Therein lies hope.

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David Crawford is the CEO and owner of a Top Male Enhancement company known as Male Enhancement Group which is dedicated to researching and comparing male enhancement products in order to determine which male enhancement product is safer and more effective than other products on the market. Copyright 2010 David Crawford of Natural Male Enhancement This article may be freely distributed if this resource box stays attached.