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"People are always looking for something to alleviate pain and disease," said Rebecca Reeves, an assistant professor at Baylor Col- lege of Medicine and the assistant director of the Behavioral Medi- cine Research Center at the col- lege. Dr. Mary Ellen Caminre, a food science and human nutritionist at the University of Maine, sees a lot of potential in dietary supple- ments but, she says, a lot of re- search needs to be done. Even then, she is skeptical becausesuch compounds can be derived from eating a balanced diet. "It's hard to tell what's good and what's bad," Dr. Caminre said. "It's the old caveat: if it's too good to be true, it probably is." Dr. Caminre said she takes fish oil capsules for joint problems. While the pills seem to keep her joint aches away, she has to be careful because the fish oil is a blood thinner. She derives nutri- ents strictly from foods. She avoid products like bee pollen, labeled as an energy booster, because she isn't convinced they do anything. "People are fed up with tradi- tional medicine," Dr. Caminre said. 'There is something appeal- ing about going back to a natur- al product. At the same time, these products can be misleading, too. For example, some of the en- ergy pills contain caffeine. Some- times, the compounds in pills can be poisonous." "There is a lot of opportunity for the industry and not a lot for the consumer," Dr. Caminre said. "There is a general misunder- standing. Natural doesn't mean safe." ❑ AMERICA'S BEST BUILT ADJUSTABLE BED MATTRESS CENTER 810-442-7575 24071 Orchard Lake Rd. at 10 Mile Rd. ',40041:14 Bong 41.1, L,, Julian 'A trt r 8_1,u t Sugar Tree Plaza • Just North of Maple West Bloomfield STAIR-GLIDE" "I respect that, but I also know people have to be careful not to get scammed, and that's what a lot of these are (scams)," he said. "Peo- ple have to be skeptical and ask for evidence. Testimonials don't do it." Ms. Feldman couldn't disagree more. She treats all her ailments with vitamins, herbs and miner- als. At the same time, she under- stands why people are skeptical about natural remedies. "I was thrown into this by al- lergies," she said. "People used herbs for thousands of years. We've gotten away from it, but the basis of some of our medicine comes from [them]." Ms. Feldman, a retired school teacher, began studying nutrition on her own over 25 years ago, around the time she developed an allergy to drugs, including antibi- otics and antihistamines. She even reached a point where she could no longer eat meat without becoming sick because of the syn- thetics given to the animals. She turned to herbs and vitamins. Ap- proximately once a year she vis- its her physician for a check of her heart, blood pressure and choles- terol. She originally-became inter- ested sometime before her aller- gies developed when she accidently stumbled across a pro- gram on public television. What she saw on the airwaves immedi- ately captured her attention. A doctor talked with war veterans who were starved and depressed from their experiences. He treat- ed them with a B-complex vita- min. "I started thinking," said Ms. Feldman, a native of France who was hidden from the Nazis as a child and subsequently starved for more than two years. "I went through the same thing when I was young." Ms. Feldman decided to try a B-complex, and it worked. "We are all born with different needs," Ms. Feldman said. "The first thing you have to do is de- termine what your needs are. I did that by reading books. I'm still learning and educating myself" Her "bible" is a book called Pre- scription for Nutritional Healing: An A-Z Reference for Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Min- EVERYTHING JUDAICA FOR THE JEWISH HOME (810) 932-3377 al way to c.laitislt „ . - g ,, a: , t -:.: a. .g ,,,,, imp4s:„.. are in* a , ,, , ,.., -eet. 41b1** _ ,_y : . _ • Huckleberry tea. 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