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ACRES U.S.A. “Let food be your medi-cine,” so said Hippocrates, but nowadaysthe medical profession seems to thinkthat medicine should be our food. Whatis your take on all this?

ARDEN ANDERSEN. In fact I was at aconference in Chicago a couple weeksago where there was an excellent presen-tation made by a doctor showing that 75percent, in some cases more, of all med-ical research today is actually funded by industry — the drug makers. With thatunderstanding, most or many doctorsare going to insist, “Well, gee, drugs aregoing to take care of everything!” Thelast thing they want to use is somethingthat’s going to replace that researchmoney — and that would be food.

ACRES U.S.A. But in fact there are a lotof things in addition to food that replacethe cold-tar derivative drugs.

ANDERSEN. Of course. There are many herbal blends, a lot of extracts fromfood, a lot of nutrients that should be infood (and in some cases are in food) thatactually provide the same kind of medic-inal results in disease and illness asdrugs. They do so in a much differentway, however. The reality is that drugs

don’t provide you with nutrition — thonly block or fool the body into belieing, on a temporary basis, that somthing is balanced. In fact, there wastudy completed about 10 years ago Europe comparing drug versus no

drug therapy for heart disease. They rthis study for 20 years as opposed to ttypical 10 years. What they found wthat for the first 10 years the drug grotaking anti-hypertensive drugs, ancholesterol drugs, whatever it might for heart disease, they found that thpeople fared a little bit better. Ntremendously better, but they did farlittle bit better than the non-medicatigroup. However, when they looked at tsecond 10 years of that same group, whthey found was that not only did t

non-drug group fare better just in funtion, they had a lower death rate than drug group. What that study provedthat it’s still nutrition that operates tbody, that gives the body the energyfunction like it’s supposed to. You can by for 10 years with drugs, but eventuly you’ve got to pay the credit card, athat’s why in that second 10 years tdrug group fared worse, had a highdeath rate.

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Arden Andersen, D.O., Ph.D.

Arden Andersen is more than a fixture at almost every Acres U.S.A.Conference. He is a medical doctor with more than a passing interest inthe real medicine of Hippocrates — “Let food be your medicine.” He isalso a progressive agronomist. In both roles he makes the connectionbetween health in the soil and health in plants, animals and humanbeings. As a consultant, he works with growers worldwide. It is hard to

say whether he is more at home as a teacher, field consultant or health practitioner. Effective in all areas, his greatest impact may well be via thestudents he has trained to comprehend and use the information con-tained in this interview and in the books he has written.

LET FOOD

BE YOUR MEDICINEWhy Full Nutrition Is Better than Drugs



ACRES U.S.A. Doctors may understandthis, but the layman does not understandthat the reason there’s almost noresearch on things that actually work toreplace drugs, is because the pharmaceu-tical companies can’t make a dime out of it.

ANDERSEN. That’s correct — a lot of these things are almost totally driven by patentability. If you can patent some-thing, that means you can monopolize itin the market. However, there’s already atremendous amount of research outthere despite the fact that a lot of peopleare in the business of creating new thingsas opposed to using old tried-and-proven remedies — and a lot of foodsare old tried-and-proven remedies.

ACRES U.S.A. We know some people

who have osteoporosis and arthritis, andholistic practitioners tell us that one of the tried-and-true remedies for this,either to control it or reverse it to someextent, is something as simple asdiatomaceous earth, once calleddiatomaceous sand, which is a silica.

ANDERSEN. Sure.Absolutely. The thingabout it is, osteoporosis is not caused by a lack of a drug. Osteoporosis is causedby a lack of adequate nutrition andappropriate digestion in the human inorder to utilize that nutrition that went

into the system. I rarely use any drugs inmy practice for osteoporosis — I don’tfind them necessary, and I find thatmany women can’t even tolerate them asfar as their stomach. I rely on goodnutrition, if we’re really aggressive withit, I supplement things like diatoma-ceous earth, things like strontium with afull mineral mix combined with micro-crystalline calcium or calcium hydroxya-patite. With good nutrition and makingsure that we have good digestion, we findthat we don’t have any problem regener-

ating osteoporosis fully.ACRES U.S.A. Would you make a com-ment on trace minerals? They seem tobe surfacing an awful lot in the newsthese days, and we’re interested in thecorrect access to them and the bestorganic forms of them.

ANDERSEN. That’s a really good ques-tion, and there are a lot of supplementcompanies out there that wish they had

the opportunity to answer it becausethey would all say that their specificproduct is the best. Over the years we’veheard a lot of tag terms — it’s micron-size, it’s colloidal, it’s this and that. Thereality is that if we have first of all thenutrient presence, then we have to havegood nutrition in the gut as far as appro-priate microbiology, such as lactobacil-lus, bifidobacteria and so on, and theproper acid and enzymes to digest those

foods. So there has to be a combinationof all of those things in order for thetrace minerals to be valuable. We findthat most of the food grown today con-tains some degree of the major nutrients— calcium, magnesium, potassium,those kinds of things — but zero levels of very important critical nutrients — forexample, silicon, strontium, vanadium,chromium, iodine, lithium and so on.So, the only way we are going to get thosethings today is through supplements.Among the various supplemental prod-ucts on the market today, I prefer to use,if possible, amino-acid chelated materi-als, as well as a higher-grade product thatI know has a specific amount of thesenutrients in them. Trace minerals arecritical for the immune system to func-tion properly. For example, selenium isvery important relative to the preventionand treatment of cancer. Very importantfor countering the mercury we areexposed to in the environment.Unfortunately, a lot of the food today doesn’t have any selenium in it. I preferthe amino-acid chelated selenium, the

selenomethionine. You can get seleniumas a sodium selenite, but again, it goesback to digestion, and I find that if I givea patient a trace mineral mix — whetherit be in a tablet supplement or a liquid ormaybe even in food, for example,through seaweed or some such material— if I don’t also address their digestivesystem it doesn’t work, because metalsrequire a good acid level in the gut aswell as good enzymes for assimilation.

ACRES U.S.A. Can you make clear our readers the vitamin connection? Wtalk about trace minerals, but we atalk about vitamins and there’s a lotconfusion about those two concepts.

ANDERSEN. Vitamins are the catalysthe lighter fluid, if you will. I know yremember before gas barbecue griwhen you had to go to the grocery stoand buy charcoal briquettes. In order

get those charcoal bricks going you hto add a little lighter fluid. Well, vitamare very much like that in our biochemcal pathways. They’re catalysts for other things to operate properly, to the minerals up and utilized — and course a lot of vitamins have minecomponents. For example, B12 hcobalt, and the vitamin is that link in tsystem for making things happen, if ywill, in the manufacturing process proteins, amino acids, carbohydratcell components and then the ceassembled to form tissue and so on. T

vitamins are the catalysts for thoprocesses — so we can have all the merals present, we can have all the proteand carbohydrates present, but ifdon’t also have the vitamins, then noing is going to occur. It’s just debris inheap. The other thing that vitamins very important for in that catalyprocess is helping to collect free radicaFor example, vitamin C and vitaminwork very closely with glutathione, senium, manganese, copper and the othantioxidant minerals.

ACRES U.S.A. Is zinc included? Iodin

ANDERSEN. Absolutely. All of thotrace elements are very important components in that process of, you migsay, dousing out the fire of free radicwhich are causing damage to the tissSo the vitamins are triggering thointermediate processes that allow us take that fire, cool it down, and actua

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“The reality is that drugs don’t provide you witnutrition — they only block or fool the body intbelieving, on a temporary basis, that something

balanced.”



dissipate it without damaging the rest of the surrounding tissue.

ACRES U.S.A. In working on a manu-script recently, which goes to press as

Minerals for the Genetic Code, we discov-ered that there are some 22 subatomic

particles that ride in on the photons of light from the sun, which of coursebrings us to vitamin D. Would you com-ment on that?

ANDERSEN. There’s no question that

when we really get down to the brasstacks everything is all energy anyway —it all comes from the sun. As far as build-ing our physical body, without question,if we don’t have adequate vitamin D,then it’s more than just an issue of assimilating calcium. Medical researchhas shown for quite some time actually that vitamin D is correlated not only tocalcium, but also to the prevention of cancer. It seems to be correlated to anumber of other processes that maintainthe health of the body — many of whichwe really don’t understand. Without it,there’s a big gap. For example, there’sresearch showing that high doses of vita-min D may lower blood pressure. Weknow that vitamin D has some correla-tion with depression, and it’s importantto understand that all of these thingshave many more components than wecan explain — and ultimately, it all goesback to energy. So in collecting that sun-light, that information called photons —all of our cells operate from photonicenergy anyway — the vitamin D is, youmight say, the wagon component carry-

ing a lot of that information.

ACRES U.S.A. If we can transport thisconversation over to animals, vitamin Dwould figure mightily in beating backthings such as bovine tuberculosis,maybe brucellosis and some of these dis-eases that are causing ranchers andfarmers so much trouble. How do youfind that equation squares with humanmedicine?

ANDERSEN. We find that if we haveadequate vitamin D, a number of thesethings work very well. For example,there’s a lot of work recently looking atthe issue of sunlight causing skin cancer.If you track that, what they have found isthat skin cancer has paralleled the use of

sun screen, and in fact what they showedwas that sunlight actually decreases theincidence of some major cancers — lungcancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer,

colon cancer. Of course that sunlight willbe correlated with the manufacture andutilization of vitamin D by the body andwith overall health, particularly of theimmune system, which is going to corre-late to every disease you can have. Whenpeople had tuberculosis years ago they put them in an asylum, and what didthey do? They put them out in the sun!Sunlight is something that the ancientsand our forefathers understood was avery important component of healthand healing.

ACRES U.S.A. Let’s move onto some-

thing that affects both animals andhuman beings and this matter of omega-6 and omega-3 fats — namely, how theanimals are grown, whether they’re onpastures or in the feedlot consuminghighly refined carbohydrates.

ANDERSEN. What this has to do with isthe biochemistry in the gut and with themicroorganisms that are part of thatbiochemical pathway. Ruminant animalswere never designed to be healthy on aconcentrate, a highly refined carbohy-drate or grain carbohydrate diet, or alco-

hol or sugar or whatever is in the latest,greatest computerized ration. Yes, someof them actually put alcohol in animalrations! But the organisms in the rumenwere not intended to digest those sub-stances — they can, but they were neverintended to. When we put those things inthe rumen, we alter the animal’s bio-chemistry, which means we change thenature of the fatty acids that are pro-duced. Those fatty acids get absorbed

into the bloodstream and then end determining what type of omega oils going to be formed in the fat. When have a high-grain diet, we’re going to more omega-6 fats, which means mosaturated fat in the meat. That is a strresponse. We know that relative to p

ple, and we know that relative to chiens. If we stress people or animals, thcholesterol levels go up. Thus, if we strthe rumen with a high-concentrate dthose saturated fats go up — of courthe animal is going to gain weigbecause you’re going to be putting onto the system, but you don’t have fnutrition. If, instead, we get grass inthat animal, the biochemistry the rumgives us omega-3 building blocks, whare absorbed into the animal and prduce omega-3 fats. If we then take istep further and we feed grass that habrix reading of 12 or above, we can omega-3 to omega-6 ratios in the banimal that are at least 1:1, and it’s posble to actually get more omega-3 thomega-6 in a beef animal, and still over three pounds a day weight gain.

ACRES U.S.A. Whereas an animal infeedlot has little or no opportunity movement, never gets a breath of air thisn’t loaded with fecal dust and chemcals and so on. Would that be correct?

ANDERSEN. Absolutely correct. Wdon’t need to have those animals thereorder to achieve the production levels need to feed the population.

ACRES U.S.A. I’ve often wondered wpeople that are interested in cruelty animals don’t land on the feedlot syste

ANDERSEN. I think that’s a discussifor the politicians!

ACRES U.S.A. Let’s move on a little here and discuss medical consequencWhat are the consequences of pesticid

herbicides, fungicides being in, arouand on the food supply?

ANDERSEN. One of the reasons whwrote my book Real Medicine, RHealth was to point out, first, that peohave options in medicine, but at tsame time — and you’re not going find this in the agricultural literatu you’re not going to find it in Fa Journal, you’re not going to find it at oof your university publications out

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“Vitamins are . . . catalysts for the other things tooperate properly, to get the minerals up andutilized.”



the Ag schools — there’s a tremendousamount of medical research in which thecorrelation, both directly and indirectly,between disease and pesticides isextremely well established. We’re not justtalking about conjecture. We’re not talk-ing about wishful thinking. There are

absolute correlations, the medical litera-ture shows, between these substancesand childhood cancers, for example —without question. It’s all about pesticidesand the lack of nutrition which goeswith those pesticides.

ACRES U.S.A. Meaning compromisednutrition, when you have chemical mol-ecules tied up, indigestible?

ANDERSEN. Absolutely. The thingabout it is, you’re not going to need thepesticide if you have nutrition. The two

are not mutually compatible in the samesystem. When we have appropriate agri-cultural practices, what we find is that wehave the nutrition — the brix readingsgo up, and we don’t have the pesticidepick-up by the roots of the plants — itsimply doesn’t occur. We also know of aconnection between pesticides andParkinson’s disease, which is a very dev-astating neurological illness — threevery good university studies coming outof the Gulf War correlated organophos-phate pesticides to Parkinson’s disease.That was a landmark study because agri-culture wasn’t interested in looking at itat all, and in fact had no connection withit. It came about because all of theseorganophosphate pesticides were usedon our troops in the Gulf War and they were coming back with so many inci-dences of Parkinson’s-like syndrome thatthe government investigated and eventu-ally linked it back to organophosphatepesticides. So looking at these incidencesof Parkinson’s disease in our non-mili-tary population, then, we have to look atpesticides, particularly organophosphate

pesticides. In fact, younger and youngerpeople are getting Parkinson’s diseasethese days.

ACRES U.S.A. Organophosphates havealso been implicated by Mark Purdey,the expert on Mad Cow disease, as beingthe agent that, given enough time, dis-torts the prion that may inhabit thebrain of an affected animal. Have youlooked into any of that?

ANDERSEN. Yes, I’ve looked into hiswork and I think it’s very, very intrigu-ing. It doesn’t surprise me at all thatthere is a potential link betweenorganophosphates and neurological dis-ease or neurological aberration, becausethat’s what the whole Mad Cow issue is

— it’s an aberration of the central nerv-ous system, and again, the research allcorrelates organophosphates to thosekinds of problems.

ACRES U.S.A. What happens when thesechemicals actually inhabit the gene, pen-etrate the gene?

ANDERSEN. A number of things canhappen. The chemicals essentially inter-fere with the overall communication of the system. So picture for a moment that you have a computer program that oper-

ates a robot to build an automobile.Then somebody comes in and throws amonkey wrench into the robot. Well, allthat’s going to do is break the robot.That’s like getting a heavy metal orsomething like that in the body. Butwhat happens if somebody comes in andthey interfere with the computer programthat runs the robot? It’s no longer a mat-ter of simply fixing the robot, we have togo back and correct the basic informa-tion package. The problem is, if we don’tcatch that problem quickly we may endup with 1,000 automobiles made defec-tive because of that flawed informationpackage. Well, our genetic material is likethat software program, and when wehave a chemical, a pesticide, in the sys-tem it interferes with that informationtransfer to the hardware, plus we can endup with hardware that is duplicated withdefects.

ACRES U.S.A. Or goes into wild prolif-eration.

ANDERSEN. Absolutely, and frequently that happens as well — it’s called cancer.

ACRES U.S.A. Lindane or organophos-phates or any of those things can do this?

ANDERSEN. That is correct. The inter-esting thing, though, is that nature doesprovide us with the opportunity toreverse all of that, if we provide the prop-er building blocks to do so. We can dothat in the soil, we can do it with plants,animals and people, but not withouthaving full nutrition. That’s why we

make that link between agriculture amedicine, agriculture and human heal

ACRES U.S.A. Lately we’ve been givithe food crops over to the genetic mofiers.

ANDERSEN. Really, genetic engineeri

is just another excuse to avoid gonutrition and it’s another way of furthmonopolizing the industry against tfarmer, against the consumer, and course it perpetuates an increasing usepesticides and more use of medicatioWe have more illness, more allergies, eAll of that is documented in the mediliterature. So we have to understand thall genetic engineering is doing is throing a monkey wrench into the bodsoftware program, and that softwprogram then is forever defective.

ACRES U.S.A. What do they call thatcomputer talk?

ANDERSEN. A computer virus absolutely! Literally that’s exactly whthey are creating with genetic engineing. They attach a virus to the gebecause that virus acts as an activatcomponent, but then they have to addantibiotic-resistant marker so that thcan tell whether or not that gene wsuccessfully inserted, so we automaticly end up with things like antibio

resistance throughout the entire fochain.

ACRES U.S.A. So, we’ve grown corn,genetically modified, we’re extracting tsugar from that corn and substitutingother sugars with corn sugar because cheaper. What is that doing to our mebolic systems?

ANDERSEN. We’re having some signcant problems with that. It’s direcconnected to obesity and diabetes. Whpeople don’t understand is that hi

fructose corn syrup is a combinationrefined fructose and sucrose from coWe thus have a combination of refinsugars going into the food chain at vehigh doses on a regular basis, so weboth stimulating and overriding tinsulin response system on a daily bawith no nutrition to back it up. We eup with greater weight gain, we end with significant obesity problems in o youth. In fact, if you track the amountsugar that goes into the American pop

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lation, there has been a continuousincrease over the past 50 years, particu-larly after the advent of the corn sweet-ener. Now, in addition to the straightchemical problems of corn sweetenercontaining both fructose and sucrose,we’re having a problem with it being

genetically engineered. So we’re also see-ing greater and greater allergic reactionsto corn products. That then tracks tomore allergies and more inflammatory disorders throughout the human popu-lation.

ACRES U.S.A. Metabolically, how doesthe body handle this new sugar?

ANDERSEN. You have to kind of breakit up into sucrose and fructose, becausethe two have different pathways in whichthey’re utilized and trigger different

responses in the body. The sucrose isgoing to stimulate the insulin responsesystem. Since it’s not carrying any nutri-tion with it, however, it’s all useless stim-ulation of that insulin process, leading toinsulin resistance, hyperglycemia andeventually Type II diabetes, as well asobesity and all the things that go withthat. The other component is the fruc-tose. This is not the same fructose that you get from eating a piece of fresh fruit— that fructose is combined with all of the other nutritional components that

go with it — enzymes, trace minerals,major minerals, vitamins and so on —so that fructose has a different signatureinto the system. But when we takerefined fructose and throw it into thesystem, we end up with the problem thatwe can’t metabolize it throughout thebody. It’s only metabolized in the liver,and we see similar reactions in the liverfrom high-fructose diets as those thatoccur in alcoholics. We end up with fatty liver issues. The satiety or satisfactionfrom eating is not stimulated by thatrefined fructose, so you overeat because

the body doesn’t feel satisfied. We findthat people on a high-fructose diet willovereat more and more, they seem tocrave more and more of that sugar — itbecomes an addictive process. They getmore, and then they crave more, and soon.

ACRES U.S.A. Is that what makes many of these sodas so addictive?

ANDERSEN. Absolutely right — thebody gets to the point where it cravesmore and more and more of these sugardrinks in the system.

ACRES U.S.A. How does this affect whatwe call a “dry drunk?” Someone who

spent his formative years drinking andthen goes dry?

ANDERSEN. One thing that we see withalcoholics is that part of the whole alco-holic process is a carbohydrate metabo-lism problem.

ACRES U.S.A. And that carries forwardeven after they quit drinking?

ANDERSEN. Yes — they have some kindof carbohydrate problem to begin withtypically and alcohol becomes that satis-factory thing, which is why many alco-holics become soda-pop-aholics to com-pensate as a replacement of their alcohol.They still have a problem dealing withcarbohydrates.

ACRES U.S.A. They can also becomeaspartame addicts.

ANDERSEN. Well, the aspartame justincreases your craving for more andmore sugar, or carbohydrates, so they’restill craving carbohydrates — the process just continues on. What we really have todo as part of a rehab program for alco-holics is to revise their diet to take outthe refined carbohydrates and only allowthem to have the complex carbohy-drates, high-fiber carbohydrates, as wellas the full nutrition that goes along withthat, particularly the trace minerals, sothat pancreas-liver process of carbohy-drate metabolism can once again operatelike it’s supposed to.

ACRES U.S.A. BST — bovine soma-totrophin. What is it doing to people?They claim it’s exactly the same as what

the cow naturally manufactures.ANDERSEN. They have to claim that,because if they admitted the truth, we’dshut them down. The reality is, we knowthat the first human experiment ongenetically engineered products wasL-tryptophan, and we know ShowaDenko in Japan in 1988 was the only genetic engineering firm producingL-tryptophan. It caused 1,500 cases of eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome and 37

deaths. The FDA chose to view that acontamination of a supplement on tmarket, despite the fact that none of tmanufacturers of non-engineerL-tryptophan ever had a problem. Wthat history in mind, look at bovsomatotrophin, a genetically engineer

bovine growth hormone. The Canadiadid a review of the animals receivBST and found that there is a significaproblem. The organs grew larger — bthey actually lost mass. They lost weigThey had more problems with infertilThey had more defects. They had mmastitis issues. If it were just a natuthing and there were no problem with you wouldn’t see these consequencescontrast to natural growth hormone.

ACRES U.S.A. What about consequenfor the human being, though?

ANDERSEN. In my opinion, from whI see, the consequences for the humbeing are going to be very similar to tL-tryptophan fiasco. I think wealready seeing that in the human poplation with increased incidence of dbetes, more childhood cancer and so o

ACRES U.S.A. Milk intolerance?

ANDERSEN. Tremendous milk intolances, and the problem is that a lotpeople think, “Milk intolerance, that j

means you have a lactose intolerancNo, it doesn’t mean that. In fact, thmisapprehension is exploited as a divsion from what’s really going on. Lactointolerance is an enzyme issue. It hnothing to do with the immune systeWhat we’re talking about is an immureaction — an adverse immune reacti— to dairy as a foreign protein,invader in the body, just like an inftion. This is absolutely separate from tso-called lactose-intolerance factWhat I see in my practice is that dai

eggs, wheat and corn are the four mcommon sensitivities in the populatioWell, the dairy in this country, unless organic, is going to be genetically enneered through bovine growth hormoand a majority of the cows eat geneticly engineered soybean and corn — allthe chickens, unless they’re organic,going to have genetically engineered sobean and corn that they’re eating, justmost of the corn products in this coutry, unless they are organic, are going

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be genetically engineered. You talk toother doctors, you talk to governmentofficials on allergies, exactly the samething. We’re seeing more and more aller-gies and sensitivities to those foods andparticularly an acceleration over the pastdecade.

ACRES U.S.A. Is that why many peoplereport that their children were lactoseintolerant until they switched to freshmilk, or raw milk, at which point they were no longer lactose intolerant?

ANDERSEN. I can’t say that happens100 percent of the time, but it’s certainly more than a coincidence. I see frequent-ly in areas where people are able to getthose kinds of fresh dairy products, they say exactly the same thing: “Gee, wedon’t have a reaction anymore!” or the

child doesn’t have a reaction anymore.Sometimes you’ll see it just by going toorganic dairy, even the pasteurized stuff.There are many times that we’ve seen thedisappearance of reactions that we getfrom commercial dairy, which we knowhas a lot of genetically engineered com-ponents to it.

ACRES U.S.A. Winding this up, would you be able to give us a quick précis of what your new book is all about?

ANDERSEN. It’s really a revision of Real

Medicine, Real Health. We put a new pic-ture on it, we cleaned it up a little bit andwe did some revisions on it, but it’s still asummary letting people know that they have options in their medical care, and atthe same time letting them know there ismedical research to show a direct corre-lation between agriculture — and agri-culture means food — and humanhealth. I allude a little bit as well to theunderstanding of the background onagriculture aspects — brix readings,quality of food from a farmer’s perspec-tive, from a soil perspective — in factthat’s what we’re going to talk about atour seminar in December at the Acresconference, a three-day seminar just onthat process of agronomy. So that bookis kind of the consumers’ side of agricul-ture. Of course, we’re all consumers, weall eat food.

ACRES U.S.A. Do you address specificsyndromes?

ANDERSEN. Yes I do. With many of thecommon ones, we get quite specific. Ispend a fair amount of time in the booktalking about autism, about attentiondeficit, about childhood illnesses.Personally, I feel that if we don’t take careof our next generation, a lot of it’s all for

naught anyway. So I spend a fair amountof time addressing issues of children andof young people, and unfortunately can-cer is spreading faster in children thanany other age group. We’ve got to takecare of these children. I also spend a fairamount of time on neurological andinjury issues and cardiology. So basically,the medical issues that concern farmers.

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