Posted by bluedog on November 6, 2002, at 4:37:01
In reply to IsoM, question for you, posted by johnj on November 3, 2002, at 20:16:23
I have been following psychobabble for a while but have only just started posting in the last few days as I wanted to get a good sense and feel for the board first
I have come to the conclusion that this is definitely the best message board I have ever come across for reasonable and intelligent debate. (just because people are suffering from a mental illness does not make them dumb.
Like johnj I have also enjoyed the posts of IsoM (amongst others who seem to be long term posters at psychobabble). I also have a question for IsoM.
What do you think of the advice given by Dr Andrew Weil in his books(such as Eating Well for Optimum Health) and at his web site? see http://www.drweil.com/app/cda/drw_cda.html
To me dr Weil appears to have his head scewed on right and his nutritional advice is very balanced and reasonable and has taught me how to eat properly and eating according to the principles he teaches has appeared to help with my major depression.
Also, at his site you can also take a quetionnaire and he gives basic recommendations as to vitamin supplements you can take. Even though I personally think his vitamin advice is not as good as his nutritional advice (In my opinion think he recommends some supplements in too high doses (such as selenium) but overall I think it provides a very good starting point for the nutritionally confused amongst us). I know that he does have a certain financial interest in his vitamin recommendations but it is purely opional whether you purchase vitamins through his site and he does give you the ingredients in all his formulations which gives you the opportunity to shop around.
I do not think Dr Weil is a quack (quite the opposite in fact) and in the book mentioned above he actually presents very compelling arguments against what I consider to be fad diets (like the Atkins diet) where recommendations are made to cut out or restrict one or more of the macronutrients or major food groups.
Just curious what your opinion is?
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