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Curing the Incurable

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Mrs Rigg details her fight with MS. She ultimatly arrives at the conclusion that careful nutrition can positively affect the outcome of her MS. She feels that certain foods are digested better in a particular environment-acidic, basic, and neutral. She assigns foods to these three catergories and cautions the reader about combining them. She feels that we should not mix acidic and basic food categories together, but rather mix either acidic or basic with neutral foods, thereby giving the digestive system the best environment in which to do it's job. Mrs Rigg also feels that we should eat organically grown food when possible, as well as raw foods. She builds a rather credible case for this regimen as it took her out of a wheelchair and back onto the golf course. Having been a fair golfer myself, I recognize this as impressive. For all of us with MS, I am appreciative for her work. She actually was doing the Zone, before she recognized it as the Zone. I wholeheartedly recommend this book for those of us with MS. I have even given it out to those with cancer and ALS. Good luck to all who read this! Dr Jim Abney, Jr.

Jacque Rigg dared to do what the medical establishment tells the patient is iether incorrect or ineffected... taking control of your own health and denying the establishment 16K a year to pay for harmful pharmacueticals. I agree whole heartedly with most of what I have read. I myself refuse to take the medications which cause tremendous side effects, often leading to a host of other illnesses and disorders. I have turned only to organic/living foods, magnetic matresses, yoga, prayer, nutritional supplements, acupuncture and hyperbaric oxygen therapy. In a matter of four months, almost all of my symptoms have disappeared. This I know, is not due a "natural" remission, but my body's capacity to heal itself through proper nutrition and lifestyle. This is a wonderful introductory guide for those seeking to avoid the horrendous side effects associated with traditional "western" medicine. There are however several other natural protocols not included in the book that readers may also want to explore. Ironically, I am an Epidemiologist who teaches at a medical school, but who under any and all circumstances would follow Rigg's advise before taking the toxic medications which are currently available to MS patients. Thank you Jacque for a "true" contribution to the field of health. There are many of us out here who truly love and respect you for your efforts. Dr. Liza Molina

I thought this was a terrific book on using nutrition and related approaches to "heal" MS, primarily because Ms. Rigg does not advocate any one particular approach but rather emphasizes the need for each person with MS (or any other health challenge) to do lots of research and figure out what works best for him or her. Her emphasis on keeping a diary to record reactions to different foods and the inclusion of many recipes are both practical and useful ways to help the person with MS. After almost a decade with this disease, I am tired of medication and even more of insurance companies, and am committed to trying the nutritional approach to MS by starting a diary this week. Thanks Ms. Rigg!

This was fantastic. my partner has been diagnosed with ms but chooses not to take medication. this book has helped both of us and has improved his symptoms no end. it is so good to read a book that isn't full of medical terminology but just states things how they are. easy to read, easy to understand and the recipes really do taste good

In '97 I was diagnosed with MS. Someone told me about this book and I ordered it. Its a best buy with the best advise!!! A must read for anyone who seeks to listen to the inner self. Don't do as I did. Read the book and follow it. I wasted a lot of time before I finally followed it and my own inner self to wellness.

It should be pointed out that this book was written before the DMD or CRAB drugs were used to help suppress MS. Chemotherapy is only used in aggressive relapsing-remitting MS and in conjunction with Copaxone now. Jacqueline Rigg wrote this book from her experiences with active MS, over 20 years ago.
I found this book's recipes to be quite useful. I don't believe that there is a 'cure' for MS, but that it is best to examine all options.
Personally, diet plus DMD has worked very nicely for me. However....this could have happened anyway.
Sticking rigidly to a diet just because it has worked for someone else is very common and can be encountered in all diet groups, Raw, Vegan, Best Bet, Swank, Atkins, you name it, there will be diet evangelists and their devout followers.
Diet is not a religion and it's time that people grew up about this. The same goes for medicine.
When you live with a disease that can affect your body differently each day, you learn the hard lesson of living without absolutes.

Somehow or other, I've had this book on my bookshelf for a long, long time.

165 pages of recipes, 15 pages of resources and just over 100 pages of text (in easy-to-read, short, short chapters)

A breeze to read, that's for sure.

Given that Rigg found that a raw food diet left her without energy, I really wonder what she'd think of Victoria Boutenko. That's exactly the reason that Victoria started the 'Green Smoothie Revolution'. (see 'Green for Life')

(after their personal health-turnaround, Victoria's family WALKED from Mexico to Canada!)

Rigg's is a very, very different philosophy and strategy.

Tho her work melds very well with some of Udo Erasmus writing in 'Fats that Heal, Fats that Kill'. Especially the parts about finding what works for you because there are many, many reasons that 'one size' does NOT - and cannot - fit everyone when it comes to diet.

Looking forward to giving it a try.

(withholding that last star until I see how it works!)

I got this book because I am working on healing my own body--not of MS, but of chronic Lyme Disease, which
I've had for 9 months now. I'm so glad I purchased this book. It is filled with ideas on how to strengthen
your immune system naturally. It was inspiring to read the author's story and know the things she struggled
with and then to know that she OVERCAME and HEALED. Lots of hope, along with a ton of resources on techniques,
foods, natural products that can help cure any "incurable." It's a book I will refer to and read again.
Highly recommended! :)

About 4 years into changing her diet and trying other therapies such as acupuncture, chiropratic, and massage, my co-worker with Primary-progressive MS purchased this book. We thought it was fantastic because it reaffirmed the progress she was also having with natural methods. Success isn't overnight but now, into her 7th year she is see tremendous results as Jacque did. Awesome book. We would recommend it highly!Curing the Incurable

This book should be burned. The author, who has absolutely no medical training, discounts modern medicine, suggesting that MS sufferers go off the medications which are critical in stopping further progression of the disease. Her anecdotal recounting of how diet cured her of MS completely ignores scientific fact that some cases of MS go into remission. Others have a single episode and return to health. But including this info wouldn't sell books, would it? She offers 100 pages with some rather absurd theories, e.g., electric blankets are bad for you, then launches into recipes only! And she admits her diet is the Zone diet! Shame on her for offering hope to people who desperately search for answer to a horrible disease. Shame on Amazon for distributing this trash.