The Hidden Factor of Natural Good Health

in Houston and one of the study’s co-authors, said “I don’t believe that arthroscopic surgery for osteoarthritis of the knee is any more beneficial than a placebo effect, and I don’t recommend it,”

Further evidence was shown on a recent TV programme in the UK made for BBC’s Open University,

The researchers found that the effectiveness of all medicine, orthodox and alternative, is certainly partly due to the ‘placebo effect’, meaning that if you believe something will do you good then it most probably will.

The programme continued by saying that the placebo effect could demonstrate the power of a person’s mind and body to heal itself, thus further illustrating how the importance of expecting a positive outcome plays an important role in the effectiveness of both alternative and orthodox medicine.

To expand the placebo effect to the area of diets, consider the statement that ‘if diets really worked, there would only need to be one diet and it would work for everyone.’

As stated by Prof. Fletcher, Dr. Pine and Dr. Penman “Diets are so ineffective in controlling weight that around 95% of people who go on one end up just as fat a year later (and sometimes fatter too).”

In a 20 year study of behavioural flexibility in British Universities and for the UK’s Medical Research Council, Professor Ben Fletcher, Dr Karen Pine and Dr Danny Penman discovered that the more flexible your behaviour, the more weight you will lose.

What is really amazing about this study is that weight loss or gain had nothing to do with food consumption.

This is a powerful example demonstrating that ‘what goes on in your mind determines your physical experiences’.

As further examples of how your health is affected by

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