Vivian Virginia Vetrano is allegedly a
chiropractor with special skills and knowledge in holistic medicine and alternative medical treatment. For many years, she operated – together with
her son-in-law and daughter Gregory and Tosca Haag – the Rest of Your Life
(ROYL) Retreat in La Vernia, Texas, where they offered fasting and other
“natural hygiene” approaches. Natural hygiene is an offshoot of naturopathy
(described and assessed in detail here)
based on fallacious appeals to nature,
and which is in direct opposition to most medical treatments, advocating instead (a) eating a “raw
food” diet of vegetables, fruits, and nuts, (b) periodic fasting, and (c) “food
combining”, i.e. avoiding food combinations Vetrano et al. considers detrimental.
That, of course, is a bad idea, and Vetrano has predictably enough been
involved in lawsuits following the deaths of patients with curable conditions,
such as this one.
She is still a hero of the raw food movement,
it seems.
Natural hygiene, founded by Herbert Shelton
in the early twentieth century, seems to be a major force of evil in today’s
society. It was developed in detail and brought up to date (i.e. incorporating
the usual fads) in the 1980s by Harvey and Marilyn Diamond and their enormously
popular books Fit for Life and Living Health (Harvey has a “Ph.D. in nutritional science” from the
unaccredited American College of Health Science), as well as through The Beverly
Hills Medical Diet by the recent Judy Mazel, and Unlimited Power by Anthony Robbins.
Diagnosis: Influential
crackpot who is still in the business of unsupported claims that are evidently
not to the benefit of health and well-being. A good argument in favor of more
substantial anti-quack laws.
So Vivian Vetrano has a death on her hands.? We shouldn't mention then that Vioxx (approved by the FDA) caused over 56,000 deaths, and that the annual death-rate caused by the medical system runs into over 783,000 deaths.
ReplyDeleteGregory & Tosca Haag along with Vetrano hold themselves out as Doctors. They are con artists praying on desperate people.
ReplyDeleteThey are responsible for the death of a 55 year old man who trusted them. Animals like this should be in prison not just in debt.
And the official institution is not preying on desperate people?
DeleteThis Website is obviously supported by people based toward Allopathic medicine.
ReplyDeleteThis website is biased toward medicine that works and has been shown to work, which - by definition - would be science-based medicine. That is correct, and you are really pointing out the obvious. The website is biased *against* "medicine" that doesn't work, such as the idiotic bullshit promoted by Vivian Vetrano.
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