Talk:Nutraceutical
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[edit] pseudoscience
The term "nutraceutical" is a term being propagated by commercial interests and smacks of pseudoscience. Does it really belong in Wikipedia? --Rhombus 16:27, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
Topic: First sentences The first sentence states 'Neutraceutical ... refers to foods claimed to have a medicinal effect". I would think that all neutraceuticals actually DO have an effect. The fact that many foods wrongly claim to be neutracuticals does not alter the definition. User:pathh
topic: Search Engine Links Under links, we have links to the topic nutraceuticals in many search engines. These links aren't substantial enough to be here. A reader can go to the search engine and type in the word for themself. External links should give you something with real human work behind it: an article, not just a computerized string search you can run for yourself.
I haven't erased them yet, because I am deferring to the authors of the article, but I think erasing them would be appropriate. 67.127.185.219 00:28, 5 July 2006 (UTC)Kevin
Removed this sentence:
- Nutraceuticals are a refined specific food source that allows concentrated food therapy in a specific area of nutrition.
Ground 21:40, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I added a link to the American Nutraceutical Association web page. That web page has an FAQ with a really great discussion of what exactly "nutraceutical" means, but the evil structure of the web site prevents linking directly to that page. Currently the nutraceutical FAQ is at http://www.americanutra.com/faq_links.cfm?FaqCategoryID=3&cfid=598052&cftoken=16931204, and you must use JavaScript to view the actual FAQ entry for the word. I felt it was better to just link the front page than to incorporate a link that is likely to be broken in the future. --Steveha 19:00, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Much of modern traditional medicine is aimed at treating sick people, not at keeping healthy people people healthy. There are sources of "non-traditional" material which can be especially useful as a starting point for people who are looking for new perpsectives in addition to what their doctor may be telling them. For example, the Results Project is a non-profit organization which encourages kids with Attention_Deficit_Disorder to be happy, healthy and successful by using, among other approaches, nutritional therapies. The Results Project has a particularly thought-provoking set of quotations including:
"Doctors give drugs of which they know little, into bodies, of which they know less, for diseases of which they know nothing at all." Voltaire
"The carpenter desires timber, the physician disease." Rig Veda IX. 7.9
"I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still get your money." (Moliere: "A Physician in Spite of Himself," 1664)
"Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom." Benjamin Rush, MD., a signer of the Declaration of Independence and personal physician to George Washington
"The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition." Thomas Edison
"We must admit that we have never fought the homeopath on matters of principle. We fought them because they came into our community and got the business." Dr. J.N. McCormack, AMA, 1903
"One of the biggest tragedies of human civilization is the precedents of chemical therapy over nutrition. It's a substitution of artificial therapy over nature, of poisons over food, in which we are feeding people poisons trying to correct the reactions of starvation." Dr. Royal Lee, January 12, 1951
