Damning Diagnosis For Health Fads Means Bad News For The People Who Offer Them, And Scientology - Page 2
The Daily Mail reported the top ten:
Cupping, a form of acupuncture in which heated cups are placed on the skin to stimulate blood flow and ease stress and pain, tops a list of 'health hoaxes' identified by GPs.Second on the list is colonic irrigation, in which a large, water-filled tube is used to 'cleanse' the bowel.
Actor Ben Affleck has tried it, but there is no medical or scientific evidence it works, according to the NHS Choices website.
In third place is food intolerance testing, which singer Geri Halliwell has tried. Kits can cost up to £275 but the results are said to be highly variable.
The others in the top ten are: 4 detoxing; 5 macrobiotic diets; 6 aromatherapy; 7 reflexology; 8 vitamin B12 injections; 9 extreme yoga; 10 overnight health farm stays.
The list was compiled by insurance firm Aviva from a survey of 200 GPs.
Now although all of the top ten fads that Aviva named can be a waste of money, not all can be harmful. For instance, I doubt if cupping, food intolerance tests or extreme yoga (whatever that is) would be very harmful?
But detox is. I was REALLY pleased as punch to see detoxing on their list. Some of the detoxes out there can be quite harmful to the body. And of course one of the detoxes out there is Scientology's Purification Rundown aka the "Purif" for short.
This regiment consists of ingesting oil, and mega doses of niacin aka "vitamin bombs", LONG daily saunas that are up to five hours a day for five or more weeks and working out hard on a tread mill. Niacin in such high doses can be very harmful to the liver.
Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard also claimed that this program can rid the body of radiation . *snort!*
Recently, ABC Nightline interviewed Scientology defector, Amy Scobee, in a two part series along with other defectors.
Amy spoke about "grey stuff" coming out of her pours from being on the Purification Rundown. She said she was FORCED to go on this program while she was in Scientology's Sea Org and was put on a punishment called the RPF. (Rehabilitation Project Force)
Cult spokesman, Tommy Davis said that Amy was not forced to go on this program and that she used the program for "religious reasons".
So.....
if the Rundown is "religious" as Davis states, then why is this same exact program used in Scientology's Narconon and Criminon programs? And why are states funding these programs? Scientology has always claimed that Narconon and Criminon are separate from Scientology and non religious. Hmmm, which one is it Scientology? It can't be both.
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