My Nutritional Awakening
Why I take a lot of vitamins
Oct 11, 2025
Back around 1960 my aunt developed breast cancer and had a radical mastectomy (breast, lymph nodes and all – that’s what they did back then). She was told that if she had no secondaries for 10 years she could consider herself cured.
Nine year and several months later a secondary appeared, and that began a long series of further secondaries – each followed by surgery, radiation or chemotherapy regimes which made her life miserable. Like a lot of people in similar situations, she was ready to try anything. At the time there was a little book entitled “Folk Medicine: A Vermont Doctor’s Guide to Good Health” by Dr. D.C. Jarvis, which had been on the New York Times Bestseller list for the previous 2 years. Its prescription was apple cider vinegar and honey. My aunt read it and … More
